Amphora
| Object Number: | 31-36-11 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Greek Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Italy Etruria Vulci |
| Manufacture Location: | Attica |
| Maker: | Berlin Painter |
| Date Made: | ca. 490 BCE |
| Early Date: | -540 |
| Late Date: | -440 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | Red Figure |
| Iconography: | Nike Thymiaterion Athlete |
| Height: | 49.1 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Arthur H. Lea, 1931 |
Description
Obverse: winged Nike flying toward right, head turned back, holding thymiaterion in left hand, floral spray in right hand. Below, border of maeander & cross. Reverse: youth wearing long cloak proceeding to left, looking back, right hand raised to left shoulder, left hand holding staff. Wears wreath: athlete? Damaged. Amphora of Panathenaic shape. Early work of the Berlin Painter.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Mini Greek Exhibit (09 Oct 1989 - 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Complementary Curiosities: Three Collectors of Antiquities in 19th Century Philadelphia (12 Apr 2012 - 17 Dec 2012) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Stolyarik, Yelena, and Romano, Irene B., and Romano, David G., and DeVries, Keith R., and White, Donald J. 1995. The Ancient Greek World:The Rodney S. Young Gallery.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 29 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Carpenter, Thomas H. 1989. Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena.. Oxford. Oxford University Press. ed. 2nd. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 191 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Burn, Lucilla. 1982. Beazley Addenda; Additional references to ABV, ARV and Paralipomena.. Oxford University Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 95 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Boardman, John. 1979. "The Athenian Pottery Trade: The Classical Period". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 21. no. 4. pg. 33-39 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 39 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1974. The Berlin Painter.. Mainz am Rhein. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. ed. revised. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 8, no. 15 [listed as 31-16-11] | 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. 342 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters.. Oxford. Clarendon Press. ed. 2nd. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 198, no.15 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters.. Oxford. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 132, no. 15 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Dohan, Edith H. 1932. "Four vases from the Henry C. Lea Collection". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 23. no. 1. pg. 23-44 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 26-31, fig. 5-7 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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