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Kalpis (water jug) depicting Herakles reclining while being served by a satyr,
ca. 510–500 BCE
in the style of the Madrid Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
y170
Information
Title
Kalpis (water jug) depicting Herakles reclining while being served by a satyr
Dates
ca. 510–500 BCE
Maker
in the style of the Madrid Painter
Medium
Black-figure ceramic
Dimensions
h. 34.6 x w. with handles 35.4 x diam. 29.5 cm (13 5/8 x 13 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Trumbull-Prime Collection
Object Number
y170
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Place Excavated
Europe, Italy, Nola, Campania (southern Italy)
Inscription
Graffito incised after firing, center interior of base
Graffito incised after firing, inside wall of foot
Graffito incised after firing, inside wall of foot [opposite of above]
See accession card for drawings of marks.
Culture
Period
Mary Hollister Prime (née Trumbull) (1827-1872) and William Cowper Prime, Class of 1843 (1825-1905); 1890 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
Black-figure Kalpis: Herakles Reclining, Served by a Satyr
- J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)., p. 117
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Karl Galinsky, The Herakles theme: the adaptations of the hero in literature from Homer to the twentieth century, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1972).
, p. 82, pl. 3.5 - John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. 4: p. 883, Demeter 468; p. 726, pl. 442, Herakleidai 9; p. 806, pl. 536, Herakles 1409; Vol. 5: p. 755, pl. 498, Iris I 153;
- Jaimee Pugliese Uhlenbrook and Karl Galinsky, Herakles: passage of the hero through 1000 years of classical art, (New Rochelle, NY: Artistide D. Caratzas, 1986)., pl. 28
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Simone Ruth Wolf, Herakles beim Gelage: eine motiv- und bedeutungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Bildes in der archaisch-frühklassischen Vasenmalerei, (K, Germany: Böhlau, 1993)., p. 198, no. sf. 12; fig. 80
- J. Michael Padgett, et. al,The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), cat. no. 57
- Alan W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek vases: addenda, (Oxford, UK: Aris and Phillips, 2006)., pp. 126-127, 11E and 18A.
