Amphora (Storage Jar)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

455-445 BCE

Attributed to the Sabouroff Painter
Greek; Athens

This vase has a distinctive shape characterized by an elongated ovoid body on a thick disk foot, an offset flaring neck, an inverted lip with grooves for a lid, and handles that rise from the shoulder and curve below the height of the mouth to join the neck. The type is called a Nolan amphora, after Nola, Italy, the site where the first examples of this shape were discovered and where this example was also found. It probably contained wine, olives, or oil. Nolan amphorae are small, usually less than fifteen inches high. Figures are drawn between the handles on the front and back. Below, a length of meander pattern provides a ground line.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Amphora (Storage Jar)
Place: Nola (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.: 455 BCE–445 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 33.3 × 17 × 16.8 cm (13 1/8 × 6 3/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1922.2198
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William Fröhner, Collection van Branteghem: Vases peints et terre cuites antiques (Paris 1892), no. 90.
Daniel Catton Rich, “Five Red-Figured Vases in the Art Institute of Chicago,” American Journal of Archaeology, no. 34 (1930), pp. 167-171.
Daniel Catton Rich, “Martin A. Ryerson’s Gifts to the Classical Department,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vol. 27 (1933), p. 19.
G. Kavvadias, O Zographos tou Sabouroff (Athens 2000), p. 190 no. 119, pl. 86.
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. 38.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Alphonse van Branteghem, Brussels; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1892, lot 86, to Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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