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AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE A (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)

Red-figure Euthymides · Amphora · -525 to -475

A: HEKTOR ARMING BETWEEN PRIAM (OLD MAN WITH STAFF) AND HECUBA (HOLDING HELMET), SHIELD DEVICE, SATYR HEAD IN RELIEF | B: KOMOS, MEN, ONE WITH KANTHAROS, ONE WITH STAFF

Inscription

Provenance

4 recorded events

Excavation 1828–1829

Vulci, Etruria, Italy

Excavated at the Vulci necropolis during the Canino campaigns.

Purchase 1829

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection

Musignano, Italy

Part of the vast Canino collection assembled by Lucien Bonaparte at Musignano.

Sale c. 1831

King Ludwig I of Bavaria

Munich, Germany

Purchased by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for the royal vase collection. Ludwig was one of the great royal collectors of classical antiquities.

Purchase c. 1831

Königliche Vasensammlung, Munich

Munich, Germany

Entered the royal vase collection. Bears the famous boast inscription ΗΟΣ ΟΥΔΕΠΟΤΕ ΕΥΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ ("as never Euphronios [could do]") — direct evidence of artistic rivalry in the Athenian Kerameikos. Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen.

Beazley, ARV², 26.1; Munich Antikensammlungen records

Shape

Amphora

Technique

Red-figure

Date

-525 to -475

Culture

ATHENIAN

Painter

Euthymides

Attribution