Alabastron
| Object Number: | MS553 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Greece Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Greek Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Italy Etruria Vulci |
| Manufacture Location: | Corinth |
| Maker: | Scale Painter |
| Locus: | Tomb 5 |
| Period: | Early Corinthian |
| Date Made: | 620-590 BCE |
| Early Date: | -620 |
| Late Date: | -590 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Iconography: | Gorgoneion Sphinx Lion Horseman Horse Tripod Panther Dancer Eagle Stag |
| Height: | 35.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 17.8 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number: | 7 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Description
Intact. Three zones of decoration. "In the center of the upper zone a gorgoneion. On either side of the gorgoneion, sphinxes, and under the handle, a lion. Approximately centered beneath the gorgoneion in the second zone are a pair of horsemen with a prize tripod between them...Behind either horseman is a panther. Between them under the handle a padded dancer...In the lowest zone, approximately under the tripod, a spead eagle, flanked by lions, and under the handle, a grazing stag." (Dohan) On bottom: old label inscribed GC42.
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:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 75 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Amyx, Darrell A. 1988. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period.. Berkeley. University of California Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 150 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 99, no. 6, pl. LIII | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Payne, Humfry. 1931. Necrocorinthia: A Study of Corinthian Art in the Archaic Period.. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 286, no. 457, pl. 20, 1-2, fig. 24b | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Seder, Theodore A. 1952. "Old World Overtones in the New World: Some Parallels with North American Indian Musical Instruments". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 16. no. 4. pg. 1-66 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: fig. 1 | 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. 58-59, no. 38 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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