AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE A (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)
A: THESEUS ABDUCTING HELEN, PERITHOOS, KORONE (ALL NAMED) | B: DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, WOMEN FLEEING (NAMED)
Inscription
Named: KORONE, EIDONTHEMEN, ANTIOPEIA
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
1828–1829
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Excavated at Vulci during the Canino campaigns.
Purchase
1829
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection
Part of the Canino collection.
Sale
c. 1831
King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Munich, Germany
Purchased by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for the royal collection.
Purchase
c. 1831
Königliche Vasensammlung, Munich
Munich, Germany
Entered the royal vase collection. Depicts Hector arming for battle — a masterwork of the Pioneer Group showing the rapid development of red-figure technique. Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen.
Beazley, ARV², 28.11; Munich Antikensammlungen records
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)