Sherd from restoration of vertical column and inscription

Artist: Kleophrades Painter (Greek, Attic, ca. 505–475 B.C.)

ca. 490 B.C.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Terracotta, black-figure with added red and white

Dimensions

23 9/16 × 15 11/16 in. (59.8 × 39.8 cm)
Diameter of Mouth: 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)
Width of Lip: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Frederic W. Stevens, B.A. 1858

Accession Number

1909.12.2b

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Late Archaic

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
Entered the collection as part of the restoration material inserted into Panathenaic prize amphora Yale 1909.12.1 (no. 6). The restoration was done in Rome in 1837; see the entry for Yale 1909.13 (no. 7).
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 12-13, fig. pl. 75.3-4
  • Lisa R. Brody et al., "A Grecian Urn," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 88–90, fig. 1–3
  • 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),
  • Erika Kunz-Goette, Kleophrades-Maler (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1992),
  • Susan B. Matheson, "Panathenaic Amphorae by the Kleophrades Painter," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 4 (1989), 95–112, ill
  • Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 and Paralipomena, 2nd (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 105
  • Sir John Davidson Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, 1st (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 404, no. 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

sherds

Inscriptions

Along the right edge of the left column on A, the final letter turning the corner to rest above the ground line: [TON A]THEN[E TH]EN ATHLON

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