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Amphora

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Object Number:MS5399
Current Location: Greece Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Greek
Etruscan
Provenience: Italy
Etruria
Vulci
Manufacture Location: Attica
Maker: Psiax
Menon
Period: Archaic Greek Period
Date Made: c 525 BCE
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Red Figure
Iconography:Apollo
Artemis
Leto
Horses
Man
Greek Inscription
Dipinto
Graffito
Height: 61.6 cm
Outside Diameter:39 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number:MS2466 - Old Museum Number

Description

Amphora, Type A,. A. L. to r., Leto, Apollo, Artemis. Apollo facing right, Leto and Artemis facing inward Identifying inscriptions. B. Two horses advancing to right and, at right, a standing male figure in Thracian costume looking back. Names of horses inscribed. On base, incised inscription: Menon epoiesen.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989) View Objects in Exhibition
Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994) View Objects in Exhibition

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[Book] Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters.. Oxford. Clarendon Press. ed. 2nd. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 6-7, no. 3View 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. 8, no. 3View 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: pp. 95-96, no. 120View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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