Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus (c. 520 BCE): Art, History and Details

Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus (c. 520 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Comparison with better-preserved vases—and with other artworks and monuments, such as the famous Siphnian Treasury at Delphi—helps to fill in some of the action no longer surviving from the rest of this vase, which once showed Apollo and Herakles struggling for the Delphic tripod. One claw-footed leg of the tripod survives, across the chest of Zeus, the bearded figure who intervened to stop the quarrel between two of his sons. Apollo is the unbearded figure at left, while Herakles would have appeared beyond the break on the right.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus
• Date: c. 520 BCE
• Creator attribution: Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 1.2 x 0.7 cm (1/2 x 1/4 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.533.a

A detail from the museum

The claw-footed tripod leg before Zeus's chest identifies the scene—the struggle for the Delphic tripod.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d.
• Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
• Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

View the collection record

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