Attic black-figure fragment showing an elbow and part of a staff (Herakles and the Kerkopes?)

ca. 520 B.C.–480 B.C.

Medium: Ceramic, exterior black-figure, interior glazed black
Dimensions: 1 7/16 × 1 1/2 × 3/16 in. (3.7 × 3.8 × 0.5 cm)
Credit Line: Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Accession Number: 2008.136.1.24
Culture: Greek, Attic
Period: Archaic
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

From the Athenian Acropolis; ex collection Martin Robertson; with Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd, 2008; purchased by Yale University, 2008

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 87-89, no. 67, pl. 125.1

"Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 142

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