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Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses

Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses

c. 540 BCE
ceramic
Overall: 40.6 cm (16 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1923.645
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The two sides of this amphora are very similar—a horseman flanked by pairs.

Description

Although pieced together from many fragments (with some still missing), this sizeable amphora remains impressive. On each side, a horsemen and four figures are contained within a large, reserved panel beneath a lotus-palmette frieze. The scenes, which differ slightly from one another in various details, cannot be identified with known historical or mythological figures or episodes.
  • ?-1923
    Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1923-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1498 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    R. H. "Recent Accessions of Greek Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 10, no. 10 (1923): 178-91. www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 62 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 75 archive.org
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 5, Plate 5 & 6 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
  • Greek Quarter. Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (organizer) (January 8-March 25, 1965).
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