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Amphora (jar) with male and female figures and warriors

Amphora (jar) with male and female figures and warriors

Amphora (jar) with male and female figures and warriors

Artist:
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 540 BC
Medium: Terracotta, black-figure technique
Dimensions:
height: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)
diameter of mouth: 7 1/16 in. (18 cm)
diameter of foot: 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with the Grace Fortner Rider Fund
Object number: 86.119.1
Provenance: With Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, by 1963. Otto Popelka, New York. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Feb. 17, 1978, lot 77, to Stuart Tray, Alpine, New Jersey; Stuart Tray by exchange to Robert E. Hecht (1919-2012), Rome and New York; unsold, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 21-22, 1985, lot 33; sold by Atlantis Antiquities (Robert E. Hecht), New York, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986.
Published References Munzen und Medaillen, Basel, Auktion 26 (5 October 1963) lot 101 Munzen und Medaillen, Sonderliste G (November 1964) no. 3 J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (Oxford 1971) p. 73, 1 bis K. Schefold, "Gotter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spatarchaischen Kunst" (Munich 1978) p. 189 Sotheby's New York, 17 February 1978, lot 77 Apollo 107 (January 1978) 74 B. Legakis, "A Lekythos Signed by Amasis," Antike Kunst 26 (1983) 75, pl. 20, 2 Sotheby's New York, 21-2 November 1985, lot 33 L. Kahil, "Helene," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) (Zurich & Munich, 1988), vol. 4, p. 550, no. 348 T. Carpenter, "Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2, and Paralipomena" (Oxford 1989) p. 49 H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio 1995) pp. 90-2, no. 42
Label Text
Side A: A man and a woman with a warrior and three youths
Side B: A youth and a woman with two warriors and a man
(Jessica Powers, 2008)



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