Neck Amphora, ca. 510 BCE

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

Black-figure ware

  • 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)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.351

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)

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].

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