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Object Number:MS4873B
Current Location: Greece Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Greek
Attic
Provenience: Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location: Attica
Maker: Exekias
Period: Archaic Greek Period
Date Made: 550-525 BCE
Early Date: -550
Late Date: -525
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Black Figure
Iconography:Scythian
Archer
Horse
Outside Diameter:27 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

Description

Archer grazing his horse. Horse at left, grazing toward center, archer, in Scythian costume, at right facing left.

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:

[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. 272-275, no. 15View 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. 12View 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. 436View 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 Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 128, fig. 9.3View 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. 16View 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] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 64-65, no. 63View 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: pp.159-161, fig. 136View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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