Amphora (jar) with horsemen and roosters
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 550-540 BC
Dimensions:
height: 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm)
width incl. handles: 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm)
max. diameter of body: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
diameter of mouth: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
diameter of foot: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.30
Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1983; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
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. 62-3, no. 22
Label Text
Side A: Two horsemen
Side B: Two roosters
The use of incised lines to indicate details in the black-figure technique is particularly clear in the feathers of the roosters on this vase. This amphora is one of a group of vases labeled “Chalkidian” because several have inscriptions in the Chalkidian alphabet. Chalkidian vases were made in southern Italy, perhaps in Rhegium, a colony of the city of Chalcis.
(Jessica Powers, 2008)
Side B: Two roosters
The use of incised lines to indicate details in the black-figure technique is particularly clear in the feathers of the roosters on this vase. This amphora is one of a group of vases labeled “Chalkidian” because several have inscriptions in the Chalkidian alphabet. Chalkidian vases were made in southern Italy, perhaps in Rhegium, a colony of the city of Chalcis.
(Jessica Powers, 2008)
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