Amphora

Object Number:

MS3497

Current Location:

Greece Gallery

Culture:

Attic

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Orvieto

Manufacture Location:

Attica

Maker:

Exekias
Lysippides Painter

Period:

Archaic Greek Period

Date Made:

c. 530 BC

Early Date:

-530

Late Date:

-520

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Black Figure

Iconography:

Heracles
Nemean Lion
Athena
Iolaus
Greek Inscription
Dionysos
Ariadne
Satyr?
Maenad
Oinopion
Staphylus
Dance

Description:

Amphora, Type A. A. Herakles and the Nemean Lion. Herakles at left grappling on ground with lion. Behind him Athena facing right. Behind the hindquarters of the lion is Iolaos. Inscriptions in the field beside the figures and one other at extreme left. Above palmette and lotus chain. B. Dionysos and Ariadne. In center, l. to r., Ariadne and Dionysos. To left a fragmentary dancing satyr (tip of tail preserved) and to right a dancing maenad. The legs of 2 children, Oinopion and Staphylus, hang from Ariadne's shoulders. Dionysos holds a grapevine and a kantharos. Inscriptions in field. Part of palmette and lotus chain preserved above. On A... (inscription), with room for probably four or five letters before the epsilon. Recalls Exekias and the Lysippides Painter. Restored from many fragments, with parts in plaster.

Height:

56.5cm

Outside Diamater:

36cm

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989)

Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)

Bibliography:

[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.

[Book] White, Donald, et al. 1995. The Ancient Greek World:The Rodney S. Young Gallery. : Page/Fig./Plate: A5

[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 434

[Article] Boardman, John. 1978. "Exekias". AJA. 82: 11-25. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 14, note 17

[Book] Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition).

[Book] Brommer, Frank. 1960. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 104, no. 46

[Article] Clement, Paul A. 1955. "Geryon and Others in Los Angeles". Hesperia. 24 (1): 1-24. : Page/Fig./Plate: 9, note 15

[Book] Beazley, John D. 1928. Attic Black-Figure: a sketch; Annual lecture on aspects of art, Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy. 50. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 31

[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 98-9, No. 110

[Article] Hall, Edith H. 1915. "Two Black-figure Amphorae from Orvieto". The Museum Journal. 6. (2 [June]): p. 85-92.

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