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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.127
People
Lydos, Greek (active 565 BCE - 535 BCE)
Title
Plate: Two Winged Figures
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 560-550 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291235

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
Diam. 22 cm (8 11/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #310200

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.127
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Interior: two winged figures running to right; snake and hare below.

Publication History

  • Henry R. Immerwahr, "Some Inscriptions on Attic Pottery", The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science (1964), Vol. 46, pp. 15-16, no. 1
  • David Gordon Mitten and Amy Brauer, Dialogue with Antiquity, The Curatorial Achievement of George M. A. Hanfmann, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 11, no. 10.
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Vol. 3, Boreadai 1
  • Amy Sowder, "Greek Bronze Hydriai" (2009), Emory University, (Ph.D. diss.), fig. 1.50.

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982

Verification Level

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