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Reproduction of a freso with hounds attacking a boar

Painted by Emile Gilliéron 

Period:
Late Helladic IIIB
Date:
ca. 1300-1200 B.C.
Culture:
Mycenaean
Medium:
watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 18 in. (63.5 x 45.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Dodge Fund, 1912
Accession Number:
12.58.4

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  • Description

    Excavated 1910 in the west slope rubbish deposit at Tiryns.

    Some 250 fragments from a large boar hunting scene were found together at Tiryns. The theme of hounds and hunters with spears pursuing and killing a boar was repeated several times with variations. The scene represented here is reconstructed from fragments not all belonging to one and the same representation in order to make at least one scene as complete as possible. Other fragments from the boar hunt are displayed nearby.

    The original is in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

  • References

    Richter, G.M.A. 1912. "Reproduction of Minoan Frescoes." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7:116-17.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. New York: The Gilliss Press, 43, fig. 26.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1944. Greek Painting: The Development of Pictorial Representation from Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5.

    Little, A.M.G. 1944. Review of Greek Painting: The Development of Pictorial Representation from Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times, by G.M.A. Richter. American Journal of Archaeology 49(2):194.

    Rodenwalt, G. 1912. "Die Fresken des Palastes." In Tiryns : die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen des Instituts / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen, Vol. 2. Athens: Eleutheroudakis und Barth, pl. XIII.

    Immerwahr, S.A. 1990. Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 202, Ti no. 6b, pl. 70.

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