A: HERMES WITH OINOCHOE AND KANTHAROS, SATYR WITH LYRE, DEER (ALL NAMED) | B: SATYR WITH KANTHAROS AND LYRE (NAMED)
Inscription
Named: HERMES, OREIMACHOS, OROCHARES
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
1828–1829
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Excavated at Vulci during the Canino campaigns. Vulci yielded the richest concentration of Attic vases ever found outside Athens.
Purchase
1829
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection
Musignano, Italy
Entered the Canino collection.
Sale
c. 1830s
Eduard Gerhard
Rome, Italy
Acquired by Eduard Gerhard, secretary of the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica in Rome and purchasing agent for the Prussian museums.
Purchase
c. 1831
Königliches Museum, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Acquired for the royal museum in Berlin through Gerhard. Later transferred to the Antikensammlung. J.D. Beazley named the "Berlin Painter" after this amphora — one of the greatest red-figure painters identified purely through connoisseurship.
Beazley, ARV², 196.1
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