Neck Amphora
MS5466
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Campania | Capua
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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Object Number
MS5466
Current Location
Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture
Greek
Provenience
Italy | Campania | Capua
Manufacture Location
Attica
Creator
Altamura Painter
Period
Classical Greek Period
Date Made
470-450 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Ceramic
Technique
Red Figure
Iconography
Apollo | Artemis | Altar | Bow | Pitcher | Kithara | Dionysos | Maenad | Oinochoe | Snake | Thyrsus | Kantharos | Palmettes
Description
Neck amphora (with twisted handles). A) Apollo and Artemis. Artemis at left, Apollo at right, an altar, with volutes, between them; both standing. Artemis, holding bow and arrows in left hand, seems to be pouring from an oinochoe onto the altar. Apollo, holding a kithara with his left hand, pours a libation from a phiale onto the altar. B) Dionysos and a maenad. Maenad at left, Dionysos at right. Maenad wears leopard's skin, holds oinochoe in right hand and a snake in the other. Dionysos faces her, standing, thyrsus in left hand and kantharos in right. Intact,
Height
47.7 cm
Outside Diameter
23.5 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from E. Canessa, 1916
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
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Beazley, John D. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. See: p. 593, 1660, no. 50
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Farnsworth, Marie. "Types of Greek Glaze Failure." Archaeology Magazine 12, no. 4. (1960): 242-250.
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Farnsworth, Marie, and Harriet Wisely. "Fifth Century Intentional Red Glaze." American Journal of Archaeology 62, no. 2. (1958): 165-173. See: pl. 36
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Beazley, John D. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942. See: p. 415, 432, no. 39
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Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section
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Luce, Stephen B. "A Group of Greek Vases ." The Museum Journal 8, no. 1. (1917): 15-28. See: p. 20, 24, 25, fig. 5-6
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Sambon, Arthur. "Bronzes et Terre Cuites VI: Amphore trouvée à Capoue." Le Musée. Revue d'art mensuelle 3. (1906): 431-432. See: pp.431-432; p. 432, fig. 5; pl. 63:1
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