Red-Figure Amphora Fragment with Departing Warrior

AAT Object Form/FunctionAmphorae (storage vessel)

CultureGreek, Attic

PeriodClassical

Dateca. 460-450 BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions6 1/4 x 2 x 11 3/4 in. (15.9 x 5.1 x 29.8 cm)

Object number1984.012 B

Exhibition HistoryPoets & Heroes: Scenes of the Trojan War, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, November 8, 1986 - February 28, 1987
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - January 2012
Annotations: George Cooke, Thomas Hope and the Lure of Antiquity, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, February 5 - July 22, 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, September 9, 2013 - June 5, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesBonna D. Wescoat, Poets & Heroes: Scenes of the Trojan War (Atlanta: Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1986), 28-29, number 5.
Mathias Prange, Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt: Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt fruhklassischer Zeit (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1989), number N 67, 195.
Owen Rees, Military Departures, Homecomings, and Death in Classical Athens: Hoplite Transitions (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 98, figure 5.3b.

ProvenanceWith Munzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, Switzerland, from at least 1974. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Munzen und Medaillen A.G.

Status

On view

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