
Cleveland Museum of Art
Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses
- Date
- c. 540 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105541
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although pieced together from many fragments (with some still missing), this sizeable amphora remains impressive. On each side, a horsemen and four figures are contained within a large, reserved panel beneath a lotus-palmette frieze. The scenes, which differ slightly from one another in various details, cannot be identified with known historical or mythological figures or episodes. The two sides of this amphora are very similar—a horseman flanked by pairs.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- ?-1923: Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1923-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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