| Object Number |
MS2491 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Etruscan |
| Provenience |
Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Date Made |
399-200BC |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Technique |
Black Figure |
| Iconography |
Goat? | Deer? | Rider | Horse |
| Description |
Ovoid Neck Amphora. A and B, Naked male rider on horseback racing toward rampant goat (deer?) at left. Below scenes, continuous around body, is a zone of lotus and palmette chain. Ray pattern around lower wall. A and B, in panel on neck, lotus, and palmette chain. Recomposed from fragments in plaster. |
| Height |
34.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
19 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number |
952 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: p. 75 |
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| Turfa, Jean M. The Etruscan World. New York: Routledge, 2013. See: p. 955, fig. 52.11 |
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| White, Donald J. "A View of the Horse from the Classical Perspective." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 53, no. 3. (2011): 24-33. See: p. 33, fig. 16 |
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| Turfa, Jean M. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2005. See: pp. 180-182, no. 176 |
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| Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. Perugia: Electa/Editori Umbri Associati, 1991. See: p. 426 |
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| Beazley, John D. Etruscan Vase Painting. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976. See: p. 11 |
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| Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: p. 84, no. 44 |
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| Hall, Edith H. "Some Greek and Italian Vases in the Museum." The Museum Journal 5, no. 4. (1914): 218-230. See: p. 225, fig. 113 |
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