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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Jug
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Jug

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureCypriot
Dateca. 800-700 B.C.
MediumTerracotta
Dimensionsheight: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
diameter of rim: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
diameter of body: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
diameter of base: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.88
GeographyDescriptionJug decorated with three sets of large concentric circles around the body.Provenancesold by American Colony Stores, New York, to Miriam Lutcher Stark (1859-1936), Orange, TX, 1929; by inheritance to her son, H. J. Lutcher Stark (1887-1965), Orange, TX, 1936; by his bequest to the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, TX, 1965; sold by the Stark Foundation to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986Published ReferencesH.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 48, no. 7
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Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
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Culture: Byzantine
6th-7th century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of S. Roger and Caroline P. Horchow.
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Culture: Chinese, Yangshao culture
ca. 2600-2300 B.C.
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Culture: Greek
ca. 560-550 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Culture: Byzantine
6th-7th century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Culture: Roman
3rd-4th century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Joan Brown Winter.
Oinochoe (pitcher)
Culture: Greek
9th century B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Amphora (jar)
Culture: Cypriot
ca. 650-550 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
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Culture: Cypriot
ca. 650-550 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter Sharrer.
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Culture: Mycenaean
ca. 1400-1300 BC
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Amphora (jar) with Herakles fighting two Amazons
Culture: Greek
ca. 500 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Eye-cup with Dionysos and a maenad
Attributed to the Class of the Top-Band Stemlesses
Culture: Greek
ca. 520-500 BC

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