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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.2322
Title
Nestoris (two-handled jar): Athena with Herakles and Warrior; Amazon and Greek Fighting
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 430 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lucania
Period
Classical period, High
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/290935

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
60.3 x 40 cm (23 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #1001390

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Bequest of Henry W. Haynes, 1912
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.2322
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 67, IV F, 7a-b, plate 38.7
  • A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1967), p. 153, no. 879
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Amazones 398; Herakles 3144*.

Verification Level

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