Amphora
Object Number:
MS4841
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Attic
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location:
Attica
Date Made:
c. 550-525 BC
Early Date:
-530
Late Date:
-525
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Black Figure
Iconography:
Musician
Kithara
Description:
A, in center, citharode facing right; on either side a seated listener. B, citharode alone. Missing: all of base and both handles; sections and fragments of wall, restored in plaster.
Height:
30cm
Outside Diamater:
20.5cm
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Archives and Archaeology: The Museum's Orvieto Collection (22 Dec 2008 - 23 Feb 2009)
Bibliography:
[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.
[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 434
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1978. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters.
[Article] Beazley, J. D. 1931. "Groups of Mid-Sixth-Century Black Figure". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 32: 1-22. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 2
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 68-9, No. 109
[Article] Dohan, Edith H. 1913. "Attic Vases from Orvieto". The Museum Journal. 4 (4): 147-161.
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