Currently not on view
Fragment of a red-figure krater: head of Zeus,
ca. 400–380 BCE
attributed to the Black Fury Painter
South Italian, Apulian
y1958-114
Information
Title
Fragment of a red-figure krater: head of Zeus
Dates
ca. 400–380 BCE
Maker
attributed to the Black Fury Painter
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
6.9 x 14.0 x 0.9 cm (2 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1958-114
Place Made
Europe, South Italy, Apulia
Culture
Period
Purchased in 1958 from George Allen, Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, who acquired it from Ambrogio Canessa.
- Arthur Dale Trendall, Frühitaliotische Vasen, (Leipzig: Keller, 1938)., cat. no. B90, p. 41
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 41
- A.D. Trendall and A. Campitoglou, Red-figured vases of Apulia, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1978-1982)., Vol. 1: p. 166, cat. no. 9; pl. 54
- John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. 1: p. 25, Acheloos 216
- M. Mayo and K. Hamma, The art of south Italy: vases from Magna Graecia, (Richmond, VA: The Virginia Museum of Art, 1982)., no. 97
- A. Delivorrias, in Bettina von Freytag-Löringhoff, ed., Praestant Interna: Festschrift für Ulrich Hausmann, (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1982)., p. 50, pl. 5,4
- A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, Second supplement to the red-figured vases of Apulia, (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1991-1992)., Vol. 2: p. 224; pl. 57; cat. no. 878b
