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HYDRIA (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)

Red-figure KLEOPHRADES P · Hydria · -525 to -475

Shoulder: ILIOUPERSIS, DEATH OF PRIAM AT ALTAR, NEOPTOLEMOS, ASTYANAX, AJAX AND CASSANDRA AT STATUE OF ATHENA, AINEIAS, ANCHISES, ASKANIOS, AITHRA, WARRIORS, WOMEN, ONE WITH PESTLE

Provenance

3 recorded events

Excavation c. 1790s

Nola, Campania, Italy

Found in the necropolis at ancient Nola, an important Greek settlement in Campania and a major market for Attic fine pottery.

Purchase c. 1800

Real Museo Borbonico

Naples, Italy

Entered the Bourbon royal collection at the Real Museo Borbonico (later Museo Nazionale). The Bourbons acquired vast quantities of antiquities from excavations across the Kingdom of Naples.

Purchase 1860

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Naples, Italy

Transferred to the national museum after Italian unification. The Iliupersis hydria depicts the sack of Troy with extraordinary emotional intensity — Priam murdered at the altar, Cassandra dragged from Athena's statue, Aeneas carrying Anchises.

Beazley, ARV², 189.74; Naples Museum inventory

Shape

Hydria

Technique

Red-figure

Date

-525 to -475

Culture

ATHENIAN

Painter

KLEOPHRADES P

Attribution