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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1952.132
Title
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Heracles and the Cretan Bull
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 525 BCE-500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291041

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
31 x 19.5 cm (12 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #13472

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes, Class of 1895
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
1952.132
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Three Ribbed Handles

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. 26, pl. 8, 1 a-b
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Vol. 5, Herakles 2333.

Verification Level

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