Amphora (Storage Jar)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

490-480 BCE

Attributed to the Michigan Painter
Greek; Athens

On one side of this vase, Dionysos is flanked by satyrs. The god moves to the right but looks back to the left. He holds up a kantharos (drinking cup) in his left hand. Both satyrs move to the right; that on the left is ithyphallic and plays a kithara. On the other side, a maenad wearing a sakkos (hat) and holding a krotala is flanked on either side by a satyr.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Michigan Painter
Title: Amphora (Storage Jar)
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 490 BCE–480 BCE
Medium: terracotta, black-figure
Dimensions: 21.2 × 13.9 × 13.9 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1889.97
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Art Institute of Chicago. Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 39, no. 327.
J.D. Beazley, Parlipomena, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 157.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978), no. 483.2.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

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