A Greek black-glazed pottery phiale mesomphalos South Italy, Calenian, circa late 3rd-early 2nd Century B.C. Depicting the apotheosis of Herakles, with four quadrigae around the centre, each driven by Nike with a seated deity as parabates, each followed by a flying Eros holding out a fillet to the deity, in one chariot, Herakles, bearded, with club in his left hand and lion's skin around his lower limbs, below the horses a fawn springing forward, Ares in the next, with helmet, cuirass, and shield, below the horses a boar, followed by Dionysus, with long chiton, himation, panther's skin, and thyrsus in left hand, below the horses a hind, a figure in relief on the body of his chariot, and Athena in the last, with crested helmet, long girded chiton, and shield with an aegis, under the horses' legs a coiled serpent, 21cm diam.