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Amphora Depicting Satyrs and Maenads
520-510 BCE (Archaic)
terracotta; black figure
(Ancient Greece )
(Ancient Greece )
This vase depicts a satyr and a maenad on each side, and concentric circles and wavy lines on the neck. It was badly fired.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Castel Campanile, 1837 [from label on vase at time of acquisition]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 11 3/4 x W at mouth: 5 5/16 x DIam: 9 3/16 in. (29.8 x 13.5 x 23.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti 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.
48.14