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Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo with Lyre

c. 520 BCE

manner of Antimenes Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE)
Greek, Attic
ceramic
Overall: 1.1 x 0.8 cm (7/16 x 5/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.f
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

Although only two fragments survive from this vase, both show Apollo, here playing his lyre.

Description

With so little preserved, the precise subject once shown on this vase remains uncertain. Along with Apollo playing his lyre, parts of the mane and reins of a horse remain, suggesting a chariot procession—perhaps for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, an event attended by the Olympian gods.
  • 1915
    Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1915-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d. BAPD 306991 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. p. 715, No. 60
    Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. 122
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 6, Plate 9-F www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 73
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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