This figure of Athena stands in the same pose as a small marble statue of the goddess dedicated by a certain Angelitos on the Athenian Akropolis about 480 B.C. The heavy drapery and quiet stance are typical of the so-called severe style that marked sculpture during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C., but here Athena turns her head to look straight at the man who raises his hand in veneration.
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Title:Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist:Attributed to the Group of Berlin 2415
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 470–460 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 8 in. (20.3 cm); diameter 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1908
Object Number:08.258.25
Said to have come from Sicily
From ca. 1840s, collection of Granet; until 1907, collection of William Rome, London; [December 18, 1907, purchased by William Talbot Ready through Christie, Manson & Woods, London]; acquired in December 1907, purchased from William T. Ready.
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McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 5–6, fig. 3, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 84, pp. 114–15, pls. 88, 177, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Schefold, Karl. 1937. "Statuen auf Vasenbildern." Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 52: pp. 45–46, fig. 8.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 5–6, fig. 3, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 776, no. 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 416, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Reuterswärd, Patrik. 1980. Studien zur Polychromie der Plastik. p. 95, n. 207, Stockholm: Bokförlaget Svenska.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1984. Vol. 2: Aphrodisias-Athena. "Athena," p. 1011, no. 590, pl. 762, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
De Cesare, Monica. 1997. Le statue in immagine: Studi sulle raffigurazioni di statue nella pittura vascolare greca, Studia archaeologica, Vol. 88. cat. no. 220, pp. 86, 167 n. 138, pl. 35, Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Oenbrink, Werner. 1997. Das Bild im Bilde. Zur Darstellung von Götterstatuen und Kultbildern auf griechischen Vasen. no. A13, pp. 33, 62, 74, 78, 179, 199 n. 933, 217, 228, 267, 290, 292, 294, 330, 368, pl. 19, Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang.
Keesling, Catherine M. 2000. "A Lost Bronze Athena signed by Kritios and Nesiotes." From the Parts to the Whole: Acta of the 13th International Bronze Congress held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28 - June 1, 1996, Carol Mattusch, Amy Brauer, and Sandra E. Knudsen, eds. p. 72 n. 17, Portsmith, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Hemingway, Seán. 2021. How to Read Greek Sculpture. p. 82, fig. 36, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Williams, Dyfri, Kenneth Lapatin, Nicholaus Dietrich, Judith M. Barringer, Francois Lissarrague, and Edinburgh University Press. 2022. Images at the Crossroads : Media and Meaning in Greek Art, Judith M. Barringer and Francois Lissarrague, eds. pp. 133–34, fig. 7.4, Edinburgh.
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