The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta lebes gamikos (jar associated with weddings) with lid

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Terracotta lebes gamikos (jar associated with weddings) with lid

Period:: Hellenistic
Date:: 3rd century B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: H. 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1924
Accession Number:: 24.97.120

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 163

References

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1929. "Polychrome Vases from Centuripe." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 24(12): p. 327.
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What
Clay (23,658)

Vessels (21,925)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,374)

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Lebetes gamikoi (14)
Where
Europe (150,115)

Italy (24,988)

Sicily (152)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,206)
In the Museum
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.