Neck Amphora Amphora
MS4860
From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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Object Number
MS4860
Current Location
Collections Storage
Culture
Attic
Provenience
Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Manufacture Location
Attica
Creator
Lysippides Painter
Date Made
525-500 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Ceramic
Technique
Black Figure
Iconography
Heracles | Athena | Hermes | Pottery | Pithos
Description
A, Herakles and Eurystheus. Left to right, Hermes; Herakles lifting boar; Eurystheus in pithos; Athena. B, frontal quadriga. Foot and large sections of other elements missing and restored in plaster. The mouth fragment may not belong. Manner of the Lysippides Painter.
Height
50.8 cm
Outside Diameter
30.3 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York . Perugia: Electa/Editori Umbri Associati, 1991. See: p. 435
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Beazley, John D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . reprint ed. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978. See: p. 259, no. 16
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Beazley, John D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition) . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. See: p. 114
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Brommer, Frank. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage . 2nd ed. Marburg/Lahn, N. G. Elwert, 1960. See: p. 40, no. 36
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Beazley, John D. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942. See: p. 5, no. 6
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Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section . Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: p. 100, no. 49
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Luce, Stephen B. "Attic Vases from Orvieto ." The Museum Journal 11, no. 1. (1920): 56-67. See: pp. 56-59, no. 1, figs. 34-35
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Hall, Edith H. "Attic Vases from Orvieto ." The Museum Journal 4, no. 4. (1913): 147-161. See: p. 161, fig. 137
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