Currently not on view
Alabastron with Poseidon riding a hippocamp,
ca. 580 BCE
related to The Boar-Hunt Painter
Greek
Middle Corinthian, 700–338 BCE
y1992-1
Information
Title
Alabastron with Poseidon riding a hippocamp
Dates
ca. 580 BCE
Maker
related to The Boar-Hunt Painter
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 16.5 cm, diam. 7.2 cm (6 1/2 x 2 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Brian T. Aitken
Object Number
y1992-1
Culture
Period
Materials
Given to the Museum in 1992 by Brian T. Aitken
- H. Cahn, Kunstwerke der Antike: Sammlung Robert Käppeli, (Luzern: Münzen und Medaillen A.G., 1963)., p. 34; cat. no. 69; pl. 22.
- D.A. Amyx, Corinthian vase-painting of the archaic period, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988). , p. 164, C.1; pp. 625 and 662
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1992," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 1 (1993): p. 36-83., p. 70 (illus.), p. 72
- Seth D. Pevnick, Robert I. Curtis, et. al., Poseidon and the sea: myth, cult, and daily life, (Tampa, FL: Tampa Museum of Art; London: in association with D. Giles Limited, 2014)., p. 160; cat. no. 95
