The scene on the reverse is in rather light-hearted contrast. The youths are Herakles' nephew, Iolaos, the hero Philoktetes (with quiver and bow), and probably Herakles' son, Hylos. Below, Athena urges nymphs to quench the funeral pyre. Herakles leaves behind on the fire a corselet signifying the husk of his mortal self.
In the elaborate scene on the obverse, he is already in a quadriga (four-horse chariot) driven by Nike and preceded by Hermes and is on the way to Mount Olympos, where Dionysos, Apollo, and Ares await him. Obverse, the death and apotheosis of Herakles Reverse, Amymone surprised by satyrs Horribly burned by a charm that his wife gave him in a misguided attempt to revive his love, Herakles had a funeral pyre built and threw himself on it to die.
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