Cup with the birth of Athena
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 530 B.C.
Place made:Greece
Dimensions:
height of rim: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
diameter of rim: 11 9/16 in. (29.3 cm)
diameter with handles: 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm)
diameter of foot: 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.36
Provenance: with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, by 1983; sold by Galerie Günter Puhze 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," cat. 5 (Freiburg 1983) 20, no. 180
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. 99-100, no. 47
C. Weiss, “Eos,” LIMC Supplementum 2009 (Düsseldorf: Artemis Verlag, 2009), vol. 1, p. 202, no. add.20 [illustrated]
Label Text
Side A: Zeus in labor
Side B (showing): Achilles and Memnon
The Greek hero Achilles is shown here about to defeat Memnon, who led a contingent of Ethiopians to assist the Trojans in the war against the Greeks. Behind Memnon, at right, is his mother Eos, the goddess of Dawn; Achilles’ mother, the nymph Thetis, stands behind him at left. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
Side B (showing): Achilles and Memnon
The Greek hero Achilles is shown here about to defeat Memnon, who led a contingent of Ethiopians to assist the Trojans in the war against the Greeks. Behind Memnon, at right, is his mother Eos, the goddess of Dawn; Achilles’ mother, the nymph Thetis, stands behind him at left. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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