An altercation on a narrow vessel.
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A tall narrow vessel with a flat base and narrow body which is widest at the top and narrows into a fluted stem. In black and white three figures interact. On the right, a figure in robes holds an object to the left, while a nude figure is bent over, tackling them. There is another figure to the left of the nude figure who also wears robes and reaches out to the fighting figures, but the rest of their body is obscured by the curve of the vessel. Above and below the characters there are geometric and linear borders.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.49
People
The Diosphos Painter, Greek (c. 500 BCE - c. 475 BCE)
Title
Lekythos (oil flask): Cheiron Watching Peleus Wrestle Thetis
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 490 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220022

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
20 x 7.5 cm (7 7/8 x 2 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph C. Hoppin, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA, collector, purchased in Athens, 1896; bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #14955

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.49
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926), pp. 11-12
  • J. D. Beazley, [Review of Hoppin C.V.A.], The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England, 1927), 47, p. 148
  • C. H. Emilie Haspels, Attic Black Figured Lekythoi, E. de Boccard (Paris, France, 1936), pp 133 and 233, no. 20
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Vol. 3, Cheiron 23.
  • Sara Chiarini, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidia, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, The Netherlands, 2018), pp. 306-7

Exhibition History

  • [Teaching Exhibition], Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 08/01/1995 - 01/01/1997
  • The Centaur’s Smile : the human animal in early Greek art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 10/11/2003 - 01/18/2004; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 02/22/2004 - 05/16/2004

Verification Level

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