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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.313
Title
Amphora with Two Bands of Impressed Decoration: Horses and Horsemen
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
550-500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Central Italy
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Italic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292580

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Roulette
Dimensions
29.5 × 18.8 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Tomb V, Poggio Sommavilla, Italy by Fausto Benedetti, Italy (1896-1897), sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston (1897-?). Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.


Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.44.313
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A. Pasqui, “X. Poggio Sommavilla”, Notizie degli scavi di antichità comunicate alla R. Accademia dei Lincei (Rome, 1896), pp. 476-489, ad p. 487, no. 3, fig. 9; p. 489
  • 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), pl. XXVII, IV B1, no. 3
  • Paola Santoro, ed., Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere, vol. 3: Rilettura critica della necropoli di Poggio Sommavilla (Rome, 1973), pp. 11-12, 33, no. 2, 36-37, 86-89, figs. 24-25, pl. 7
  • Marina Christofani Martelli, Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere: Le scoperte della necropoli di Colle del Forno—Catalogo della mostra, exh. cat. (Rome, 1973), 80-97, ad p. 88

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050

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