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Amphora

Object Number:MS4832
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Etruscan
Provenience: Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location: Attica
Date Made: 525-500 BCE
Early Date: -525
Late Date: -500
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Black Figure
Iconography:Music
Musician
Flute
Amazon
Chariot
Warfare
Greek Dipinto
Greek Graffito
Inscription Language:Greek Language
Height: 40 cm
Outside Diameter:17.7 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

Description

Attic black-figured amphora. A) Concert (flute player). B) Amazonomachy with wheeling chariot. Painter of Munich 1410.

Bibliography:

[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual CitationView 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. 311, 4.View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] von Bothmer, Dietrich F. 1957. Amazons in Greek Art.. Oxford. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 85, pl. 57, 4View 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: p. 73, no. 113View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Hall, Edith H. 1913. "Attic Vases from Orvieto". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 4. no. 4. pg. 147-161 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 150-151, no. 2, fig, 128View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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