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Storage Jar (Amphora) with Hoplites

Storage Jar (Amphora) with Hoplites

Antimenes Painter (circle of)

On one side of this storage jar three running armed foot soldiers called hoplites are accompanied by a Sythian bowman armed with spears and shields. The other side has three hoplites and a Sythian bowman walking.
Artist
Antimenes Painter (circle of)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 530-ca. 510 B.C.E.)
Title
Storage Jar (Amphora) with Hoplites
Date
ca. 530-510 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Hilldale Fund purchase
Accession No.
63.10.2
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

<span>5 March 1962, possibly sold by Sotheby’s (London, England) auction "Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities" [lot 93]; 20 September 1963, sold by K.J. Hewett, Ltd (London, England) to the University of Wisconsin<span style="font-size:13pt">–</span>Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]</span>

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 50, no. 31
  • Moon, Warren G. "Two Vases in the Circle of the Antimenes Painter." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin 1974-1975. Elvehjem Art Center (1975). p. 20, no. 1
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1974-1975." Madison, WI Elvehjem Art Center, 1976. p. 18, no. 1

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