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Object type
Museum number
1836,0224.127
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Description
Black-figured pottery amphora. Under each handle, two patterns of spirals.
(a) Achilles slaying Penthesilea: Achilles steps to right, bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, high-crested helmet and short striped chiton, and has beaten down the Amazon queen Penthesilea on one knee, and plunges spear into her throat. She has a high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces and serpent in relief, short diapered chiton, over which is a pardalis (leopard skin), sword and shield, and looks back at him, thrusting vainly with spear; a stream of blood gushes from her wound. In front of Achilles is inscribed: ΑΧΙΛΕΥΣ; in front of Penthesilea: ΠΕΝΘΕΣΙΛΥΑ. On the left is inscribed: Έχσηκίας έπτοίησε; on the right: Όνητορίδης καλός.
(b) Dionysos and Oinopion: Dionysos to left (facing left), bearded, with hair looped up and wreathed with ivy, long white chiton and embroidered himation, holds in left hand vine-branches, and with right gives a cantharos to his son, Oinopion, who stands facing him, nude and beardless, his hair looped up with a myrtle wreath, holding an oinochoe in right hand. In front of Dionysos is inscribed: ΣΟΣΝΟΙΔ (retr.), Διόνυσος; above Oinopion: OINOΠION; behind him: Όνητορίδης καλός, as on (a). -
Producer name
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Culture/period
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Date
- 530BC-525BC (circa)
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Production place
- Made in: Attica
- (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece))
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Findspot
- Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
- (Europe,Italy,Lazio,Viterbo (province),Vulci)
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Materials
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Ware
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 41 centimetres
- Width: 29 centimetres
- Diameter: 18 centimetres (This refers to the mouth of the vase.)
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Inscriptions
Inscription Type
inscription
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Curator's comments
BM Cat. Vases
Wiener Vorlegebl. 1888, pl. vi. 2; Gerhard, A.V. iii. pl. 206, p. 117; Overbeck, Her. Bildw. pl. xxi. 6, p.500; Magazine of Art, viii. pp. 102, 105; Panofka, Namen d. Vasenbildner, pl. ii. p. 19; Baumeister, pp. 1980-1; Schneider, Tro. Sagenkr. p. 137; Dumont and Chaplain, p. 348; Bonner Studien, p. 248; Corey, Amaz. Ant. Fig. p. 61; Rev. Phil. ii. p. 423; Brunn, Künstlergesch., p. 690; Klein, Meistersig., p. 39; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 25; C.I.Gr. 8156. Cf. De Witte, Coll. à l’hôtel Lambert, pi. xiii. 43.For a detailed assessment, see E. A. Mackay, Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010) 315-326, pls. 74-76b.
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Location
On display: G13/dc8
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Exhibition history
Exhibited:
1990 24 Mar-10 Jun, Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.63
1990 28 Jun-23 Sep, Australia, Melbourne, Museum of Victoria, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.63
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.97
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.97
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.97
2014-2015 11 Dec-8 Feb, Athens, Museum of Cycladic & Ancient Greek Art, Beyond -
Condition
Somewhat damaged.
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Subjects
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Associated names
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Acquisition name
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Acquisition date
1836
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Department
Greek & Roman Antiquities
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Registration number
1836,0224.127
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