| Object Number |
MS3440A |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Greek |
| Provenience |
Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Manufacture Location |
Attica |
| Date Made |
550 BCE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Technique |
Black Figure |
| Iconography |
Apollo | Athena | Hermes | Poseidon | Zeus | Ares | Amphitrite | Bird | Warrior | Warfare |
| Description |
A. Birth of Athena. Left to right, Hermes, female figure, Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus seated facing right, Athena emerging from his head, two female figures, Ares, male figure. B, Center, four-horse chariot, with charioteer, facing right. Grouped around it are six warriors, three other males, and three females. |
| Height |
54.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
37 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| The Perseus Project. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifactBrowser?object=Vase&field=Collection&value=University+Museum%2C+University+of+Pennsylvania. |
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| Mommsen, Heide. "Der Maler von Philadelphia MS 3440." In Potnia Theron: Festschrift für Gerda Schwarz, 279-288. Vienna: Phoibos, 2007. See: pp. 279-288; figs. 1-2 |
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| Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. Perugia: Electa/Editori Umbri Associati, 1991. See: p. 433 |
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| Balmuth, Miriam. "The Birth of Athena on a Fragment in the Fogg Art Museum." American Journal of Archaeology 67, no. 1. (1963): 69. See: p. 69, pl. 15, 2 |
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| Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: pp. 74-75, no. 107 |
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| Hall, Edith H. "Two Black-figured Amphorae with Scenes Portraying the Birth of Athena." The Museum Journal 3, no. 4. (1912): 68-75. See: figs. 36-38 |
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