Flask, between 590 and 570 BCE

  • Greek

Clay

  • Overall (h x diam.): 8 5/8 × 4 3/16 inches (21.9 × 10.7 cm) Overall (mouth diam.): 2 3/16 inches (5.6 cm) Mount: 9 3/16 × 4 3/8 inches (23.3 × 11.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.11

On View

  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Julius Böhler (Munich, Germany)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W. R. "Greek Vases," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 2 (1924): pp. 10-13, (fig. 2). Amyx, D.A. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period. Berkeley, 1988, p. 158. Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 6, cat. 7, (fig. 9). [attributed by D.A. Amyx to someone in the Scale-Pattern Group; by C.W. Neeft to the same painter as Toronto 919.5.95]

Greek, Flask, between 590 and 570 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.11.