Neck-Amphora Depicting Herakles Playing the Kithara

AAT Object Form/Functionneck amphorae

AAT Object TechniqueBlack-figure

Place FoundVulci, Italy, Europe

CultureGreek, Attic

PeriodArchaic

Dateca. 510-500 BCE

MediumTerracotta

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions17 1/4 x 11 in. (43.8 x 27.9 cm)

Object number2008.011.001

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallatioin, March 23, 2009 - January 2011
Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 20, 2011 - August 26, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 2, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesM. Roulez, "Hercule Citharede; peinture de vase expliquee," Bulletins de l'Academie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles 12 (1845): 341-346.
Samuel Birch, "Vasen des Hrn. Blayds," Archaologische Zeitung 4, no. 42.(June 1846): 296, letter c.
Christie & Manson London, Catalogue of the Very Choice and Important Collection of Etruscan Pottery, Antique Bronzes and Glass, and Egyptian Antiquities, Formed with Great Taste during a Residence in Italy, by Thomas Blayds, Esq. (February 14, 1849), lot 428.
Adolf Greifenhagen, "Zeichnungen nach attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasen im Deutschen Archaologischen Institut, Rom.," Archaologischer Anzeiger 93 (1978): 519, number 18, figure 32.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2008.

ProvenanceProbably ex coll. Antonio Giuseppe Pizzati, Florence, Italy, acquired 1820s. Ex coll. Thomas Blayds (ca. 1795-1849), England, acquired in Italy, probably from Pizzati. With Christie & Manson London, February 14, 1849, lot 428. Purchased by MCCM from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England.

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