- Museum number
- 1865,1118.39
- Description
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Attic black-figured amphora showing erotic encounters between older and younger men/teenage boys on both sides. One the left, a bearded older man has presented a young man with a stag, caught in the hunt. On the right, another holds a cockerel, also a love gift. In the central group, the older male thrusts his penis between his partner's thighs. All the older men are shown with erections, but only the younger man in the central scene is visible aroused.
- Production date
- 540BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 250 millimetres
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Height: 34.29 centimetres
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Height: 345 millimetres
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Weight: 2.29 kilograms
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Width: 260 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a discussion of this vase, along with a detailed modern survey of sex scenes on Attic vases and other media, see Parker 2015, 108 no. 10 and passim (wtih earlier refs). Also Parkinson 2013, 46-7 and passim for a global sample of images of same-sex desire.
Bibliography:
Parker H. 2015, Vaseworld. Depiction and description of sex at Athens, in: R. Blondell and K. Ormand (eds), Ancient sex. New essays (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press), 23-142.
Parkinson R. 2013, A little gay history. Desore and diversity across the world (London: British Museum Press).
- Location
- On display (G69/dc31)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007/8 11 Oct-27 Jan, London, Barbican, Seduced: Art and Sex
2008 1 May-12 Jul, Shanghai, The Ancient Olympic Games
2008 2 Aug-31 Sep, Hong Kong, The Ancient Olympic Games
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011 15 Oct-07 Feb, Taipei, The National Palace Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011, 11 Mar-12 Jun, Kobe City Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011, 4 July-25 Sept, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011-2012, 25 Oct-12 Feb, Mexico City, National Anthropological Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2012-2013 6 Oct-6 Jan, Portland Art Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2013, 6 May–6 Oct, Dallas Museum of Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 21 Feb-9 Jun, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 2 Aug–9 Nov, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, The Body Beautiful in Greek Art and Thought
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art
2018 25 Sep– 2 Dec, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories
2018-2019 14 Dec-3 Mar, National Justice Museum, Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories
2019 15 Mar-26 May, Bolton Museum, Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories
2019 21 Sep-17 Nov Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum, Dorchester, Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1865,1118.39
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: W39 (Museum Secretum)
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Miscellaneous number: Witt.39 (Witt Collection Number)
