Water Jar with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar

ca. 510 BCE

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

Water Jar with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar

Water Jar with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Water Jar with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar

Artwork Date ca. 510 BCE

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

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 Clay

Dimensions Overall: 20 × 13 7/8 × 11 3/4 inches (50.8 × 35.2 × 29.8 cm) Overall (outside diam. of mouth): 8 9/16 inches (21.7 cm) Overall (diam. of foot): 6 1/16 inches (15.4 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund

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. 64.148

Markings

Marks Marked, underside of foot, graffito [for reproduction of markings see Madigan, 2008, p. 30.]

Provenance

collection Dr. Herbert Cahn (Basel, Switzerland);
(Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, Switzerland);
(André Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Masterpieces of Greek Vase Painting 7th to 5th Century B. C. Sales cat., André Emmerich Gallery. New York, April 22 - May 30, 1964, cat. 17 (repr.).

Schauenberg, K. "Zu attisch-schwarzfiguren Schalen mit Innenfriesen," Studien zur griechischen Vasenmalerei. AntK. Beiheft 7. 1970, pp. 33-46, p. 41, no. 79.

Beazley, J. D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic black-figure Vase-Painters and to Attic red-Figure Vase-painters. Oxford, 1971, p. 164, 11 bis.

Johnston, A. W. Trademarks on Greek Vases. Warminster, England, 1979, p. 152, type 2F, no. 38, (fig. 11), L.

Madigan, B. Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 28-30, cat. 35, (fig. 54-55) [citing Beazley's attribution to the Leagros Group, near Painter S].

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Greek, Water Jar with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar, ca. 510 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 64.148.