Nolan Amphora with Woman and Mantled Youth
(Ancient Greece )
This amphora depicts a woman running left and looking around on the front. She holds her arms out to either side and wears a chiton, mantle, and sakkos.
On the back is a mantled youth. He stands in profile to the left with his right arm extended in front, hands open.
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 187]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
13 5/16 x 6 3/4 in. (33.8 x 17.2 cm) (h. x max. diam.);
at rim: 6 in. (15.2 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarent Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.54