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Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus

c. 520 BC

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This object has related works. See Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo with Lyre

manner of Antimenes Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BC)

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 1.2 x 0.7 cm (1/2 x 1/4 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.a

Find spot: Necropolis of Ferentum (Viterbo)

Location

102B Greek

Fun Fact

The claw-footed tripod leg before Zeus's chest identifies the scene—the struggle for the Delphic tripod.

Description

Comparison with better-preserved vases—and with other artworks and monuments, such as the famous Siphnian Treasury at Delphi—helps to fill in some of the action no longer surviving from the rest of this vase, which once showed Apollo and Herakles struggling for the Delphic tripod. One claw-footed leg of the tripod survives, across the chest of Zeus, the bearded figure who intervened to stop the quarrel between two of his sons. Apollo is the unbearded figure at left, while Herakles would have appeared beyond the break on the right.

Provenance
1915
Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1915-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d. BAPD 306991 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. p. 715, No. 60
Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. 122
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 6-7, Plate 9,1
Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 73
Exhibition history

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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