A: AMAZONOMACHY, ACHILLES, WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, AND PENTHESILEA, DEVICE, WREATH | B: WARRIOR (MEMNON) BETWEEN BLACK YOUTHS (SQUIRES) WITH CLUBS, ONE WITH PELTA, DEVICE DISC (NAMED)
Inscription
Named: AMASIS, AOIESEN
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
1828–1829
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Excavated at the Vulci necropolis during the Canino campaigns.
Canino excavation records
Purchase
1829
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection
Musignano, Italy
Entered the Canino collection alongside hundreds of other Attic black-figure vases.
Sale
1837
Paris, France
Sold as part of the dispersal of the Canino collection.
Purchase
1836
British Museum
London, England
Acquired by the British Museum.
British Museum acquisition records
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