Amphora

MS3442

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number	MS3442
Current Location	Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture	Greek \| Etruscan
Provenience	Italy \| Etruria \| Orvieto
Manufacture Location	Athens \| Attica
Creator	Exekias
Locus	Crocifisso del Tufo, Tomb 1
Period	Archaic Greek Period
Date Made	540-530 BCE
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
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 Aithiopian (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.
Height	58.3 cm
Outside Diameter	37.5 cm
Credit Line	Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

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1975 - 1989	Classical Gallery: Greece
08 May 1994 - Present	Ancient Greek World

[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual Citation	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Chapter] Bürge, Martin, and Reusser, Christoph, and Brownlee, Ann B. 2022. "Exekias and Orvieto: Amphorae in the University of Pennsylvania Museum". Exekias und seine Welt. Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.-2. März 2019. Rahden. Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH. pg. 51-56 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 33	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] Mackay, E. A. 2010. Tradition and Originality : A Study of Exekias.. Oxford. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pls. 69-71	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] Beazley, John D. 1986. The Development of Attic Black-Figure.. Berkeley. University of California Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 68-69, pl. 30	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
[Book] von Bothmer, Dietrich F. 1985. The Amasis Painter and his World: Vase-Painting in 6th century BC Athens.. Malibu. J. Paul Getty Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 31, fig. 18	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Chapter] Mackay, E. A. 1983. "A New Exekias Fragment". Greek Vases in The J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu. J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 39-40, no. 6	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 : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 132, fig. 9.6a-b	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Chapter] Moon, Warren, and Shapiro, H. A. 1983. "Painting, Politics and Genealogy: Peisistratos and the Neleids.". Ancient Greek art and Iconography. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. pg. 87-96 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 90, fig. 6.4a-b	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
[Article] Moore, Mary B. 1980. "Exekias and Telamonian Ajax". American Journal of Archaeology. Boston. Archaeological Institute of America. Vol. 84. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 53	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] Bugner, Ladislas. 1976. The image of the black in Western Art.. W. Morrow. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 144, fig. 155 (A)	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
[Book] Technau, Werner. 1936. Exekias.. Berlin. Heinrich Keller. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 21, no. 5, pl. 23	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Fraser, A. D. 1935. "The Panoply of the Ethiopian Warrior". American Journal of Archaeology. Boston. Archaeological Institute of America. Vol. 39. no. 1. pg. 35-45 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 8	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Beazley, John D. 1931. "Groups of Mid-Sixth-Century Black Figure". The Annual of the British School at Athens. Vol. 32. pg. 1-22 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 8	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1928. Attic Black-Figure: a sketch; Annual lecture on aspects of art, Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy.. London. H. Milford. pg. 50 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 30, 31	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Rumpf, Andreas. 1927. Chalkidische Vasen.. Berlin. De Gruyter. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 135	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] Hall, Edith H. 1915. "Two Black-figured Amphorae from Orvieto". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 6. no. 2. pg. 85-92 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: fig. 68-69	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Lung, Gustav E. 1912. Memnon: Archaeologische Studien zur Aithiopis.. Dissertation, Bonn. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: fig. 68-69	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
[Article] Bates, William N. 1904. "Scenes from the Aethiopis on a black-figured amphora". Transactions of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Art. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology. Vol. 1. no. 1. pg. 45-50 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 45-50, fig. 1, pl.1-2	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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