1952.132: Neck Amphora (storage jar): Heracles and the Cretan Bull
Vessels
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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
- Permissions
-
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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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