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Amphora

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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

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[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual CitationView 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. 16View 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. 20View 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. 434View 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. 12View 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 CitationView 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. 17View 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. 14View 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. 60View 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. 52View 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. 108View 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, 285View 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. 111View 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. 257-258View 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. 20View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae.. Zurich. Artemis. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 321, 666View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae.. Zurich. Artemis. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 1 fView Objects related to this Actual Citation

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