1977.216.2322: Nestoris (two-handled jar): Athena with Herakles and Warrior; Amazon and Greek Fighting

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.216.2322

Title

Nestoris (two-handled jar): Athena with Herakles and Warrior; Amazon and Greek Fighting

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 430 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lucania

Period

Classical period, High

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/290935

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

60.3 x 40 cm (23 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Beazley Archive Database #1001390

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Bequest of Henry W. Haynes, 1912

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.216.2322

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 67, IV F, 7a-b, plate 38.7
• A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1967), p. 153, no. 879
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Amazones 398; Herakles 3144*.

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