Neck-amphora

Museum number:

8-3376

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Accession number:

Acc.147

Description:

Attic black-figure neck-amphora; some restoration in plaster on side B; on neck, lotus-palmette chain; on shoulder, tongues; below scenes, lotus, rays at handles, lotus-palmette compelxes; A, Hermes, Athena, Herkales (Latin: Mercury, Minerva, Hercules), and panther; B, Apollo playing cithara, Artemis (Latin: Diana) and Leto (or 2 muses) and deer. Height, 41.7 diameter 28.1 cm

Donor:

Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé

Collection place:

Apulia, Southern Italy

Culture or time period:

Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)

Collector:

Alfred Emerson

Person depicted:

Apollo (Greek and Roman diety), Artemis (Greek deity), Athena (Greek deity), Heracles (Greek and Roman diety), Hermes (Greek deity), and Leto (Greek deity)

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Heracles (Greek divine hero), Hermes, and Neck amphorae

Accession date:

1904

Department:

Classical Mediterranean

Comment:

Airport Loan w/ mount # 018 (3/2010) in box in kroeber 19 mez

Loans:

S1967-1968 #58: KQED Television (November 28, 1967–November 30, 1967), S1975-1976 #16: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 9, 1975–April 22, 1981), S1975-1976 #22: University of Oregon (March 22, 1976–June 14, 1976), S1981-1982 #26: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (December 18, 1981–September 29, 1982), S1982-1983 #36: Saint Mary’s College of California (1983–April 29, 1983), S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983), and S2008-2009 #12: SFO Museum (June 2009–June 28, 2010)

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