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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.308
People
Attributed to The Antimenes Painter, Greek
Title
Fragment of Amphora (storage vessel): Chariot scene
Classification
Fragments
Work Type
sherd
Date
532 BCE-500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/288390

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
19.9 cm (7 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David M. Robinson, Baltimore, MD, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #320140

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.308
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Fragment from an Attic, black-figure amphora. On the body, a harnessing scene with four figures. At the left, a nude man holds the reigns of harnessed horses. In the center, a warrior wearing a Corinthian helmet walks to the right and looks back towards the horse that he leads. To the right stands a charioteer in profile bearded and wearing a long white chiton. The final figure is only partially visible, his legs and left hand facing towards the harnessed horses.

The figural panel is bordered on the top by a lotus palmette band and on the bottom by a leftward key meander. Added red is used to highlight details, namely the horses's manes and hair.

The fragment is repaired from several smaller fragments and was mended in antiquity with a metal clamp.

Publication History

  • David Moore Robinson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Robinson Collection, Baltimore, MD, 1 (1934), p. 46, pl. 163, 30.2
  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vases, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1956), 274.129
  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 14, no. 67
  • Diana M. Buitron, Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 38, no, 15
  • Thomas Carpenter, Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonca, ed., Beazley addenda : additional references to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1989), no. 72
  • J. Burow, Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus (Mainz, 1989), 7, pl. 118B, no. 116

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/1972 - 04/05/1972
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/22/2016 - 01/08/2017

Verification Level

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