Amphora
| Object Number: | MS3442 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Greek Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Italy Etruria Orvieto |
| Manufacture Location: | Athens Attica |
| Maker: | Exekias |
| Locus: | Crocifisso del Tufo, Tomb 1 |
| Period: | Archaic Greek Period |
| Date Made: | 540-530 BCE |
| Early Date: | -540 |
| Late Date: | -530 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | Black Figure |
| Iconography: | Death of Achilles Death of Antilochos Menelaos Amasos Dipinto Ajax Game Iliad Memnon Inscription Warrior Warfare |
| Iconography Subject: | Death Mythology Aethiopis |
| Height: | 58.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 37.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
Description
Amphora, type A. Side A: Ajax with the body of Achilles. Left, Menelaos (labeled), holding a round shield (device: dog with a haunch of a hoofed animal), has pushed his spear into the chest of a naked man with African features (labeled Amasos) who holds a club and a pelta (wicker shield). At right, Ajax bends to lift the dead body of Achilles (name partially preserved). B: Death of Antilochos. Antilochos (labeled) lies slain in center. Three warriors run to left: two helmeted warriors with round shields (device of one shield: crow) and spears and a bearded man in a flapped hat. They chase two naked men, one carrying a pelta, away from the body of Antilochos Palmette lotus chain above panels. With Greek dipinto inscriptions. The foot is not preserved, restored in plaster. Orvieto, Crocifisso del Tufo, Tomb 1
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Mini Greek Exhibit (09 Oct 1989 - 1994) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989) | 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 |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Reusser, Christoph. 2018. "Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert" : Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018 - 31.3.2019.. Zurich. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 276-283, no. 16 | 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. 20 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York.. Perugia. Electa/Editori Umbri Associati. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 434 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 34, fig. 12 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Chapter] Moon, Warren, and Pinney, Gloria F. 1983. "Achilles Lord of Scythia". Ancient Greek art and Iconography. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. Actual Citation | 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. 17 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1978. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters.. New York. Hacker Art Books. ed. reprint. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 145, no. 14 | 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. 60 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. pg. 1-167 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 52 | 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. 204, no. 108 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Brommer, Frank. 1960. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage.. Marburg/Lahn, N. G. Elwert. ed. 2nd. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 277, 285 | 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: pp. 96-98, no. 111 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Furtwängler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905).. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 257-258 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Furtwängler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905).. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 257-258, no. 20 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae.. Zurich. Artemis. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 321, 666 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae.. Zurich. Artemis. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 1 f | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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