Terracotta pelike (jar)

: Attributed to an artist near the Chicago Painter

Period:: Classical

Date:: mid-5th century B.C.

Culture:: Greek, Attic

Medium:: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions:: H. 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)

Classification:: Vases

Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number:: 06.1021.191

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 156

Obverse, Apollo and his sister, Artemis, pouring libation at altar
Reverse, two women

Dressing in a long chiton, Apollo holds a kithara, the stringed instrument used for professional and public performances. He appears here in his role as leader of the nine muses and patron of the arts. Artemis pours liquid into the phiale held by her brother, and he in turn pours a libation onto the altar between them.

McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. p. 78, fig. 97, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. pp. 4–5, fig. 37, New York: Plantin Press.

McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. p. 78, fig. 97, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 632, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1984. "A Greek and Roman Treasury." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 42(1): p. 12.

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4: Eros-Herakles. "Hebe I," p. 460, no. 8, pl. 275; "Hera," p. 706, no. 405, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.

Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. no. 123, pp. 113, 429, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

"A Greek and Roman Treasury": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 42, no. 1 (Summer, 1984)
Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome

Department

Greek and Roman Art (17,244)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Chicago Painter (4)

Object Type / Material