Black-figure phiale mesomphalos (libation bowl)

450–400 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Clay, reddish clay, metallic black glaze save for reserved band around omphalos; black-figure
Dimensions: 1 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. (4.8 × 21.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Accession Number: 1913.126
Culture: Greek, Attic
Period: Classical
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Ex collection Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased by Yale University with a gift from Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913

Bibliography

Milette Gaifman, The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018), 6, fig. 07a-c.

Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 63, no. 47, pl. 105, fig. 42.

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), 84, no. 126, fig. 22.

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), 14, no. 126.

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