Vases Red-figure Pelike Terracotta pelike (jar)
Terracotta pelike (jar)
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Terracotta pelike (jar)

Red-figure Attributed to the Somzée Painter · Pelike · ca. 420–410 BCE
Pelike. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875. Gallery 159.

Attribution History

Current
Met Museum catalogue
Source: met_import

Depicted Scenes

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Bibliography

10 references
Catalogues & Reference Works
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 337
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 1159.2
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 450.5
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.611, OINOPION 6 (A)
Books & Monographs
Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022) (2022) — 183, FIG.101 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017) (2017) — 269, FIG.131 (A)
Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016) (2016) — 556, NO.568 (A)
Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010) (2010) — 531, FIG.449 (A, B)
Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997) (1997) — 261, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF BD)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012) (2012) — 142, FIG.6 (A)
Shape
Technique
Period
Classical
Date
ca. 420–410 BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Attribution
Attributed
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
75.2.7
Image Source
met_cc0
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