Jar (neck-amphora) with warriors and an Amazon
Place made:Greece
Date: mid 6th century B.C.
Dimensions:height: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)
diameter of mouth: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm)
diameter of foot: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: DEAC.86.134.31
Provenance: with Palladion Antike Kunst, Basel, by 1976; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 14-15, 1981, lot 268A to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986 [accession number 86.134.31]; deaccessioned in January 2022 and transferred to the Manhattan District Attorney, New York, for restitution to Italy
Published References
"Palladion. Antike Kunst" (Basel, 1976), 23, no. 23
Sotheby's, London, 14-15 December 1981, lot 268a
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 80-81, no. 36
D. W. J. Gill and C. Chippindale, "From Boston to Rome: Reflections on Returning Antiquities," International Journal of Cultural Property 13 (2006) 318.