Black-figure lekythos showing Apollo mounting a chariot drawn by lions, a wolf, and a boar Artist: Edinburgh Painter (Greek, Attic, ca. 500-480 B.C.)

ca. 500–490 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Terracotta, black-figure with added red and white

Dimensions

12 11/16 × 5 3/16 in. (32.3 × 13.2 cm)
Diameter of Mouth: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Diameter of Foot: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.111

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Classical

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Italy, Taranto (Beazley Archive Pottery Database); Said to have come from Tarento (Baur); ex collection Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased by Yale University with a gift from Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 35-37, no. 23, pl. 88-89, 97.6, fig. 18
  • Eleni Hatzivassiliou, Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, Germany: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2010), 37, 59-60, 147, no. 550, fig. 550
  • Timothy J. McNiven, François Lissarrague, and Françoise Frontisi-Ducroix, An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies, ed. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Athens: Institut du Livre, 2009), 91-92
  • Thomas Mannack, Haspels Addenda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 29
  • Thomas Mannack, "Beazley Archive Database," http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browse.asp?tableName=qryData&newwindow=&BrowseSession=1&companyPage=Contacts&newwindowsearchclosefrombrowse= (accessed 1997–2019), Yale section, p. 40, fig. 34
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 261, ill
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 1, p. 220-21, no. 15, pl. 159; vol. 2, p. 288, no. 853; vol. 2, p. 717, no. 1235; vol. 5, p. 321-22, no. 402
  • John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), 147, fig. 240
  • Konrad Schauenburg, "Zu Darstellungen aus der Sage des Admet und des Kadmos," Gymnasium 64 (1957), 211, no. 3, pls. 3, 5
  • Henry B. Stoddard, "Special Windsor Style Found," American Collector 1 (April 19, 1934),
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 76-77, no. 111, fig. 19
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 12, no. 112
  • Paul Hartwig, "Il carro di Admeto: Una rara pittura vascolare," Ausonia 7 (1912), 107-108, pl.1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

lekythoi, mythology

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