Alabastron - MS553 | Collections

Object Number:	MS553
Current Location:	Greece Gallery Currently On Display
Culture:	Greek
Provenience:	Italy Etruria Vulci
Manufacture Location:	Corinth
Maker:	Scale Painter
Locus:	Tomb 5
Period:	Early Corinthian
Date Made:	620-590 BC
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:

	Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)	View Objects in Exhibition
	Mini Greek Exhibit (09 Oct 1989 - 1994)	View Objects in Exhibition
	Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

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	[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.. Tufts University. Actual Citation	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. 3	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
	[Book] Benson, Jack L., and Schaus, Gerald P. 1995. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The University Museum.. Philadelphia. University Museum. Vol. University Museum 2; USA 29. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 44-45; pl. 21, 1-4	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
	[Book] Amyx, Darrell A. 1988. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period.. Berkeley. University of California Press. Vol. 1-3. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 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: 286	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. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Vol. 16. no. 4. 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. University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 58-59, no. 38	View Objects related to this Actual Citation