Amphora
| Object Number: | MS2462A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Attic |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location: | Attica |
| Date Made: | 550-500 BCE |
| Early Date: | -550 |
| Late Date: | -500 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | Black Figure |
| Iconography: | Dionysos Kantharos Satyr Maenad Athena Hermes Double Flute Lyre Music Dance |
| Height: | 48.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 31 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Description
Amphora, Type B (Richter and Milne, fig 4) Complete except for minor fragments. A, Dionysos in center, facing right, with kantharos. Behind him, at the left, are, left to right, a satyr and a maenad. In front of him, to the right , are, left to right, Athena and Hermes, Athena facing left, Hermes advancing to right but looking back. Lotus bud border above. B, Four satyrs, each carrying a female (maenad?), advancing toward right. Three of the females are playing musical instraments: Left to right, double flutes, lyre, double flutes. Lotus bud border above. Beazley, Paralipomena, p. 147: Near the Priam Painter: "A, Dionysos and Athena with Hermes, a maenad, and a satyr; B, four satyrs lifting maenads on their shoulders."
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Pressing Matters Supplement (15 Mar 2008 - 20 Apr 2008) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition).. Oxford. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 147 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Auction] 1897. The Robert H. Coleman Collection of Archaeological Objects. Catalogue.. Philadelphia. Davis and Harvey's Gallery. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 41 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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