1995.18.68: Red-figure cup fragment, side A.: Komos: arm of one to left swung out behind; top frontal of head of male to left, wearing leafy wreath.
Fragments
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.18.68
- Title
- Red-figure cup fragment, side A.: Komos: arm of one to left swung out behind; top frontal of head of male to left, wearing leafy wreath.
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- c. 510 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287764
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Red-figure
- Dimensions
- 5.1 cm (2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Dr. J. Robert Guy, Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar, New York (1994-1995), sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #21531
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis, Ian M. Watson McLaughlin, Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.18.68
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Rim reserved on inside only. Relief contours; hair contour incised; preliminary sketch; upper right in red, uncertain letter on break, then s (kalos or pais)
Greatest dimension 5.1 cm, thickness at top 0.3 cm, thickness at bottom 0.3 cm.
Publication History
- Aaron J. Paul, "Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1997), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 7-87, fig. 121
Verification Level
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