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

c. 520 BC

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manner of Antimenes Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BC)

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 1.1 x 0.8 cm (7/16 x 5/16 in.)

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

Find spot: Necropolis of Ferentum (Viterbo)

Location

102B Greek

Fun Fact

Although only two fragments survive from this vase, both show Apollo, here playing his lyre.

Description

With so little preserved, the precise subject once shown on this vase remains uncertain. Along with Apollo playing his lyre, parts of the mane and reins of a horse remain, suggesting a chariot procession—perhaps for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, an event attended by the Olympian gods.

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, Plate 9-F

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).