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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.346
People
The Pig Painter, Greek (active c. 470 BCE)
Title
Column Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water): Komos Scene
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
480-470 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/290820

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
41.3 x 37.2 cm (16 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Van Branteghem Collection
Warren Collection
Robinson Collection, USA

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #206433

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.346
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
On one side, two nude women, both wearing headdresses and adorned with earrings and necklaces are chased by two men nude men. The woman on the right holds a wine cup (skyphos) in her left hand and a pipe case in her right. The other woman holds up her right hand in rejection and holds a cup (kylix) in the other. The man on the left is bearded and balding with his cloak draped loosely over his shoulder, aroused. The other man is an unbearded young man with an erection wearing a garland and high boots.

On the other side, two nude men pursue a nude woman. The woman is placed in the center of the image, her body facing left and her head turned right over her shoulder as she walks. She wears a headdress and necklace and holds a large cup done in silhouette. The bearded man to the left reaches out to her, nude and holding a walking stick in his right hand. On the other side of the scene, a nude and un-bearded young man holding a wineskin stretches his arms out to her and raises his right leg, revealing his erection.

Publication History

  • J. D. Beazley, Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils. (Tübingen, 1925), 240.10
  • David Moore Robinson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum U.S.A.: volume 3, The Robinson Collection, Baltimore, MD, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938), 15-16, Pls. 6.1, 7.1
  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 18, no. 106
  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1963), 563.8
  • John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. (New York, 1975), fig. 319.
  • Eva C. Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), p. 17, fig. 155
  • I. Peschel, "Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr." (Frankfurt, 1987), Pls. 86-87
  • L. Braccesi, Veder Greco, le necropoli di Agrigento, mostra internazionale (Rome, 1988), 192, No. 57.
  • Thomas Carpenter, Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonca, ed., Beazley addenda : additional references to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1989), 260
  • Kenneth James Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA, 1989), p. 70, Pl. R716
  • M.F. Kilmer, Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993), Pls. AT, P.146, R712
  • Corinna Reinhardt, Schaleninnenbild und Betrachter - Präsentation weiblicher Nacktheit am Ende der Archaik und Beginn der Klassik in Athen (ca. 520-460 v. Chr.), Nacktheit – transdisziplinäre anthropologische Perspektiven (Munich, 2019), pp. 77-104, p. 83, ill. 7
  • Sarah Eisen, "Reconsidering Enslaved People in Ancient Greek Art at the Harvard Art Museums", Journal of Museum Education (25 Sep 2024), pp. 1-12, pp. 6-7, fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • Hellenistic Greek Vases From The Province of Agrigento and Its Vicinty, Archeological Museum at Valle Dei Templi, Agrigento, 05/01/1988 - 07/30/1988
  • HAA132e The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

Verification Level

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