Amphora (jar) with male and female figures and warriors
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 540 BC
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, New York, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
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)
Side B: A youth and a woman with two warriors and a man
(Jessica Powers, 2008)
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