1925.30.126: Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Two Warriors in Ambush Crouching in Trees

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.126

People

Attributed to The Goettingen Painter

Title

Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Two Warriors in Ambush Crouching in Trees

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 510 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica

Period

Archaic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292106

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pale yellow clay, black paint

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

34.6 x 35.2 x 29.1 cm (13 5/8 x 13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston MA (1900-1925), bequest: to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Beazley Archive Database #202186

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.126

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Side A: In a palm grove of three trees two warriors in ambush, crouching to left. They are nude save for a Corinthian helmet, sword-belt and scabbard, and each holds a spear in his right and a shield in his left ornamented with a device: that of the left hand warrior a winged griffin, that of the right hand an ithyphallic mule around which runs the inscription XO?XOS OGSKALOS. In the field, senseless inscriptions in applied purple.

Side B: The same scene except that the shield devices are a winged diskeles and a triskeles. Senseless inscriptions in field.

On upper edge of rim, lotus bud chain; on sides, ivy leaf chain. On top of each handle, floral palmette (Black-figure). On obverse of neck, reserved panel containing four centaurs to right (no incisions) and imitation inscriptions in field. On each side of body a panel containing the design framed by a tongue pattern above, ivy leaf at sides. On base, rays. Portion of lower part restored in plaster.

Publication History

• Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Kentauroi et Kentaurides 103.
• Sara Chiarini, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidia, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, The Netherlands, 2018), pp. 306-7

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 01/03/2016
• A Colloquium in the Visual Arts , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022

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