Black-Figure Siana Cup; Tondo: Herakles & Lion; A & B: Cavalry

ca. 575–555 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Terracotta, black-figure
Dimensions: 5 3/16 × 13 1/4 × 9 7/8 in. (13.1 × 33.6 × 25.1 cm)
diameter of foot: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman II, B.A. 1935
Accession Number: 1993.46.15
Culture: Greek, Attic
Period: Archaic
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman, II, acquired in Greece; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1993.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 70, no. 53, pl. 110-111, fig. 48

Essi Ronkko and Hood Museum of Art, "Hood Museum," http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu (accessed June 2011-July 2021),

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),

"Acquisitions and Gifts 1993," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 172

John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974),

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