Obverse, combat of Greeks against Amazons Reverse, three youths
This vase is complementary in its main scene to the adjacent work with which it was found. The battle scene reveals the artist's interest in action and his ease with the medium. It is particularly revealing to contrast the conventional, rather anemic palmette on the neck with the barren tree that the artist had seen first-hand.
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Title:Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles
Artist:Attributed to the Suessula Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 400 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 14 1/16 in. (35.8 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1944
Object Number:44.11.12
From Suessula, Campania, Italy (“trovate a Suessula”; “Raccolta Spinelli”: Gàbrici 1913, p. 682, fig. 234)
Between 1879-1886, excavated by baron Marcello Spinelli from the necropolis of Suessula; until 1913, collection of Octave (Philipp-Octave-Marie) Borelli Bey (1849-1911), Egypt and France; June 12-13, 1913, sold at the posthumous Borelli Bey sale through Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 225); [before 1921, acquired by Jacob Hirsch]; [July 1-2, 1921, offered by J. Hirsch for sale through Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 165)]; [from before 1921 to 1944, with Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), Geneva, Paris, and New York]; acquired in 1944, purchased from Jacob Hirsch.
Hôtel Drouot. 1913. Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques & romaines; statue en marbre. June 11–13, 1913. no. 225, p. 25, pl. XXI.
Hôtel Drouot. 1921. Collection Hirsch. Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines. July 1-2, 1921. no. 165, p. 24, pl. IV.
Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. no. 2, p. 852, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1945. "Greek Painting: Four Newly Acquired Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3(7): p. 169.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 151, fig. 122, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 114, 254, pl. 94b, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1957. Amazons in Greek Art. no. 81, p. 185, pl. 81, 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 151, fig. 122, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 1344, no. 3 bottom, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1981. Vol. 1: Aara-Aphlad. "Amazones," p. 608, no. 329, pl. 485, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
von Welck, Karin and Reinhard Stupperich. 1996. Italien vor den Römern : aus der Antikensammlung des Reiss-Museums Mannheim p. 39, pl. 3, Mannheim: Reiss-Museums Mannheim.
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