Neck-Amphora with Warriors
Artist
Leagros Group
Datecirca 510–500 BCE
Mediumterracotta, black-figure
DimensionsH. 13 1/2 x Max. Diam. 9 in. (34.3 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number74.1.6
On View
Not on view[1] Per Brun, see undated letter to Mary Ellen Soles, in response to Soles’s letter dated 28 February 2001, curatorial file 74.1.1. No detail is provided about the collector.Published References"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), no. 103, illus. (b-w).
Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 1286 (March 1976), 32, illus. 119.
H. A. [Harvey Alan] Shapiro, Art, Myth, and Culture: Greek Vases from Southern Collections (exhibition catalogue) (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1982), cat. no. 35, illus. (2 views, b-w).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983, illus. (b-w) 44.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 16.
Gregory Crane, ed., Perseus 2.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (CD-Rom) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
Alan Shapiro, "On Men Weeping," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 6-7, illus. (color) 6.
Alan Shapiro, "On Men Weeping" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 76.Exhibition HistoryRichmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces of the NCMA," March 11-April 13, 1975.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976.
New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Museum of Art, "Art, Myth, and Culture: Greek Vases from Southern Collections," November 21, 1982-February 14, 1983, cat. no. 35, illus. (2 views, b-w).
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the Monte Abatone Painter
circa late 7th or early 6th century BCE
