Amphora

Object Number:

MS3440

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Attic

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Orvieto

Manufacture Location:

Attica

Date Made:

550 BCE

Early Date:

-550

Late Date:

-550

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Black Figure

Iconography:

Apollo
Athena
Hermes
Poseidon
Zeus
Ares
Amphitrite
Bird
Warrior
Warfare

Description:

A. Birth of Athena. Left to right, Hermes, female figure, Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus seated facing right, Athena emerging from his head, two female figures, Ares, male figure. B, Center, quadriga, with charioteer, facing right. Grouped around it are six warriors, three other males, and three females.

Height:

54.2cm

Outside Diamater:

37cm

Bibliography:

[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.

[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 433

[Article] Balmuth, Miriam. 1963. "The Birth of Athena on a Fragment in the Fogg Art Museum". AJA. 67 (1): 69. : Page/Fig./Plate: 69; pl. 15, 2

[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 74-5, No. 107

[Article] Hall, Edith H. 1912. "Two Black-figure Amphorae with Scenes Portraying the Birth of Athena". The Museum Journal. 3 (4): 68-75. : Page/Fig./Plate: figs.36-38

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