Neck Amphora

ca. 510 BCE

Acheloos Painter Greek, active ca. 525-ca. 500 BCE

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About the Artwork

Title Neck Amphora

Artwork Date ca. 510 BCE

Artist Acheloos Painter

Life Dates active ca. 525-ca. 500 BCE

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Greek

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Black-figure ware

Dimensions Overall: 15 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches (39.4 × 25.1 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 5 5/16 inches (13.5 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 24.351

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Provenance

collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany), [no. 85, as found in Italy];
collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany);
(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany);
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 20, cat. 27, (figs. 33-35) [citing attribution to the Acheloos Painter by D. von Bothmer].

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attributed to Acheloos Painter, Neck Amphora, ca. 510 BCE, black-figure ware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.351.

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Grosso of Helion de Villeneuve, Grand Master of Rhodes, 1319-1346

Byzantine, Roman

1319/1346

Gros of Hugo IV, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus

Byzantine, Roman

between 1324 and 1359

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Sestertius of Faustina I, reign of Antoninus Pius, 138-161 AD

Roman

141/161 AD

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Sesterius of Julia Mamaea, reign of Severus Alexander, 222-235

Mint of Rome

226 AD

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Sestertius of Philipp "Arabs", 244-249 AD

Multiple makers

246/249 AD

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Sestertius of Philipp Arabs, 244-249 AD

Multiple makers

247 AD

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Paestan Black-Figure Lekythos with Sirene

Italic

c. 340 BC

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Grosso of Helion de Villeneuve, Grand Master of Rhodes, 1319-1346

Gros of Hugo IV, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus

Sestertius of Faustina I, reign of Antoninus Pius, 138-161 AD

Sesterius of Julia Mamaea, reign of Severus Alexander, 222-235

Sestertius of Philipp "Arabs", 244-249 AD

Sestertius of Philipp Arabs, 244-249 AD

Paestan Black-Figure Lekythos with Sirene

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