1995.18.71: Red figure skyphos fragment, side A: right foot of female in chiton with himation standing to right before an altar.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1995.18.71

Title

Red figure skyphos fragment, side A: right foot of female in chiton with himation standing to right before an altar.

Classification

Fragments

Work Type

sherd

Date

c. 470-460 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)

Period

Classical period, Early

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/287779

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

5 cm (1 15/16 in.)

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 #22243

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

1995.18.71

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Preliminary sketch; no relief contours, red for sacrificial blood on altar's side.

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. 167

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