Neck Amphora
Amphora
Object Number: | MS552 |
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Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
Culture: | Etruscan |
Provenience: | Italy Etruria Vulci |
Manufacture Location: | Corinth |
Maker: | Politis Painter |
Locus: | Tomb 5 |
Period: | Middle Corinthian Period |
Date Made: | 595-570 BCE |
Early Date: | -595 |
Late Date: | -570 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Ceramic |
Iconography: | Girls Women Chorus Offering Tray Flutist Man Couch Table Food Stool Attendant Seated Woman Ceremony Religion Horse Race Spinning |
Height: | 41 cm |
Outside Diameter: | 32 cm |
Credit Line: | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
Other Number: | 6 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Description
Complete, in part mended. Three main zones of decoration: Lower zone, on lower wall; Middle zone, around point of greatest circumference; Shoulder zone. Lower zone: horse race proceeding to left. Middle zone: flutist in middle of obverse followed by chorus of 8 girls holding hands; then still proceeding right to left, a short female with trays of offerings on her head; next, a chorus of 7 girls holding hands followed by 4 women wearing himations, their hands not joined: matrons or priestesses?; last a chorus of 8 more girls ending up with the flute player. Obverse, shoulder panel: to left, a bearded man seated on couch before which is a table with food and a stool; he extends hand to man with staff; behind man on couch is a child and an attendant; behind man with staff is another attendant and at extreme right a seated woman spinning. Reverse, shoulder panel: 6 draped female figures.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Book] Benson, Jack L., and Schaus, Gerald P. 1995. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. University Museum 2; USA 29. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 46-47; pl. 24, 1-2; pl. 25, 1-2; pl. 26: 1-2 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Amyx, Darrell A. 1988. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period.. Berkeley. University of California Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 311-312, 494 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 99-100, no. 10, pl. LIV | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 56, no. 30 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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