1995.18.171: Red-figure cup fragment. Int., stopt meaender to right; forehead/nose line, left shoulder/upper arm with cloak folds of komast to right, left arm outstretched; red leafy wreath; trace of letter on right? K? Side A: block on ground on left, then right leg/cloak end of male to right, toe ends of male to left; single groundline
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.18.171
- People
-
Onesimos, Greek (active 500-480 BCE)
- Title
- Red-figure cup fragment. Int., stopt meaender to right; forehead/nose line, left shoulder/upper arm with cloak folds of komast to right, left arm outstretched; red leafy wreath; trace of letter on right? K? Side A: block on ground on left, then right leg/cloak end of male to right, toe ends of male to left; single groundline
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- c. 490 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229517
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Red-figure
- Dimensions
- 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: Trace of letter on right? K?
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Dr. J. Robert Guy, Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar, New York (1994-1995), sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #21861
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis, Ian M. Watson McLaughlin, Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.18.171
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Aaron J. Paul, "Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1997), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 7-87, fig. 39
Verification Level
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