Fragmentary amphora (jar) with satyrs and dolphins
Artist:
Attributed to the BMN Painter
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 540 B.C.
Dimensions:
preserved h. 23.1 cm, max. diam. of body 20.9 cm
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, by exchange
Object number: DEAC.87.58
Provenance: sold by Frederick Schultz (1954-), New York, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1987 [accession number 87.58]; deaccessioned in February 2021 and transferred to the Manhattan District Attorney, New York, for restitution to Italy
Published References
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. 94-5, no. 44
G. Hedreen, "'I Let Go My Force Just Touching Her Hair': Male Sexuality in Athenian Vase-Paintings of Silens and Iambic Poetry," Classical Antiquity 25 (2006), 283, 291, fig. 12.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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