Amphora (jar) with a woman and a youth in a naiskos
Place made:Italy, Europe
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 330-320 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
h. 34 5/8 in. (88 cm), h. to top of body 22 1/16 in. (56 cm); diam. of mouth 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); diam. of foot 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.87
Provenance: with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg by 1983; sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1984; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
Galerie Günter Puhze, "Kunst der Antike," 5 (Freiburg 1983) no. 216
A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, "The Red-Figure Vases of Apulia," Suppl. II (Oxford, 1992-3) 276, no. 27/39c, pl. LXXII, 2
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, G.D. Scott, III, eds., “Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art” (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 221-3, no. 110
Label Text
Side A: A woman and a youth in a naiskos
Side B: A naiskos
The large, ornately painted vases made in Apulia in the 4th century B.C. were placed in tombs and often, like this one, depict temple-like tomb buildings called naiskoi. The woman in the naiskos on the front of this vase may be the mother of the young man with the horse; she has come to mourn at his tomb. (Jessica Powers 2008)
Side B: A naiskos
The large, ornately painted vases made in Apulia in the 4th century B.C. were placed in tombs and often, like this one, depict temple-like tomb buildings called naiskoi. The woman in the naiskos on the front of this vase may be the mother of the young man with the horse; she has come to mourn at his tomb. (Jessica Powers 2008)
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