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

Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo with Lyre (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:

With so little preserved, the precise subject once shown on this vase remains uncertain. Along with Apollo playing his lyre, parts of the mane and reins of a horse remain, suggesting a chariot procession—perhaps for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, an event attended by the Olympian gods.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo with Lyre
• Date: c. 520 BCE
• Creator attribution: Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 1.1 x 0.8 cm (7/16 x 5/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.533.f

A detail from the museum

Although only two fragments survive from this vase, both show Apollo, here playing his lyre.

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.

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