Amphora

Object Number:

MS3442

Current Location:

Greece Gallery

Culture:

Greek
Attic

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Orvieto

Manufacture Location:

Athens
Attica

Maker:

Exekias

Period:

Archaic Greek Period

Date Made:

540-530 BC

Early Date:

-540

Late Date:

-530

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Terracotta

Technique:

Black Figure

Iconography:

Death of Achilles
Death of Antilochos
Menelaos
Amasos
Dipinto
Ajax
Game
Iliad
Memnon
Inscription
Warrior
Warfare

Description:

Amphora, type A. Scenes from the Aethiopis, a largely lost 7th Century epic poem. B: Death of Achilles. To left, Menelaos advances with spear against a man with African features (Amasos, Memnon's attendant) with club (inscriptions above each). To right, Ajax drops spear and bends to lift dead body of Achilles. A: Death of Antilochos. Antilochos lies slain in center. Three Greeks (two warriors and one archer) chase two naked men away from body. With Greek dipinto inscription.

Height:

58.3cm

Outside Diamater:

37.5cm

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Mini Greek Exhibit (09 Oct 1989 - 1994)

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: A22

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

[Book] Beazley, John D. 1986. The Development of Attic Black-Figure. : Page/Fig./Plate: 68-69; pl. 30

[Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 34, fig.12

[Book] Von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1985. The Amasis Painter and his World: Vase-Painting in 6th century BC Athens.

[Article] Mackay, E. A. 1983. "A New Exekias Fragment" in Greek Vases in The J. Paul Getty Museum.

[Book] Moon, Warren. 1983. Ancient Greek art and Iconography. : Page/Fig./Plate: 90, 131-133, 136

[Book] Pinney, Gloria F. 1983. "Achilles Lord of Scythia".

[Book] Shapiro, H. A. 1983. "Painting, Politics and Genealogy: Peisistratos and the Neleids." In Ancient Greek Art and Iconography, ed. Warren G. Moon. pp. 87-96.

[Book] Burn, Lucilla. 1982. Beazley Addenda; Additional references to ABV, ARV and Paralipomena.

[Article] Moore, Mary B. 1980. "Exekias and Telamonian Ajax". AJA. 84 : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 53

[Book] Beazley, John D. 1978. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters.

[Book] Bugner, Ladislas. 1976. The image of the black in Western Art.

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

[Catalogue] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: p.52

[Book] Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 204

[Book] Brommer, Frank. 1960. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage.

[Book] Technau, Werner. 1936. Exekias: mit 31 tafeln. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 21

[Article] Fraser, A. D. 1935. "The Panoply of the Ethiopian Warrior". AJA. 39 (1): 35-45. : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 8

[Journal]

[Article] Beazley, J. D. 1931. "Groups of Mid-Sixth-Century Black Figure". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 32: 1-22.

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

[Book] Rumpf, Andreas. 1927. Chalkidische Vasen. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 135

[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 96-8, No. 111

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

[Book] Lung, Gustav E. 1912. Memnon: Archaeologische Studien zur Aithiopis.

[Book] Munchener. 1905. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 257

[Book] 1904. 19. p. 225. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 225

[Book] Bates, William N. 1904. "Scenes from the Aethiopis on a black-figured amphora". 1, no. 1. 45-50.

[Book Series] Transactions of the Department of Archaeology. : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 45-50

[Journal] Vol.: XXXII. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 1 f

[Book] Ackermann, Hans C. (redaction). Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae.

[Article] Furtwangler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905). : Page/Fig./Plate: 257-8

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