Neck Amphora
Object Number:
MS2491
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Date Made:
399-200BC
Early Date:
-399
Late Date:
-200
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Black Figure
Iconography:
Goat?
Deer?
Rider
Horse
Description:
Ovoid Neck Amphora. A and B, Naked male rider on horseback racing toward rampant goat (deer?) at left. Below scenes, continuous around body, is a zone of lotus and palmette chain. Ray pattern around lower wall. A and B, in panel on neck, lotus, and palmette chain. Recomposed from fragments in plaster.
Height:
34.2cm
Outside Diamater:
19cm
Other Number:
| 952 | - | Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Archives and Archaeology: The Museum's Orvieto Collection (22 Dec 2008 - 23 Feb 2009)
Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 180-182
[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 426
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1976. Etruscan Vase Painting. 351. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 11
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 84, No. 44
[Book] 1914. V.
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