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AMPHORA, NECK (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)
AMPHORA, NECK (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)
Red-figure
KLEOPHRADES P
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Amphora
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-500 TO -450
A: DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF SINGING | B: YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, MUSIC CONTEST (CONCERT ?)
Inscription
Inscription: HODE POT EN TYRINTHI | Inscription: KALOS EI
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
Musignano, Italy
Entered the Canino collection.
Sale
1837
London, England
Sold as part of the dispersal of the Canino collection.
Purchase
1837
British Museum
London, England
Acquired by the British Museum. A neck-amphora by the Kleophrades Painter — one of the great early red-figure painters identified by Beazley.
Beazley, ARV², 182.6; British Museum acquisition records
Shape
Amphora
Technique
Red-figure
Date
-500 TO -450
Culture
ATHENIAN
Painter
KLEOPHRADES P
Attribution
Attributed
Findspot
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Museum
British Museum
Accession Number
E270
Image Source
beazley
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Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)