Neck Amphora featuring Herakles and King Memnon

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Neck Amphora featuring Herakles and King Memnon

ArtistAttributed to the Three Line Group

Datecirca 530–520 BCE

MediumTerracotta, black-figure

DimensionsH. 16 1/2 x Max. Diam. 12 1/4 in. (41.9 x 31.1 cm)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number90.2

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ProvenanceWith The Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, by 1976; Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt, Ft. Worth, TX; Hunt Sale, New York, Sotheby's, June 19, 1990, lot 4 (illus); sold to NCMA.Published ReferencesWealth of the Ancient World (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1983), cat. no. 4, illus. (2 b-w views, 2 b-w details).

Gazette Des Beaux-Arts no. 14666 (Mars 1991), 46, illus. no. 199.

Mary Ellen Soles, "Recent Acquisitions: Neck-Amphora, Greek black-figure vase," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1990-91), 29-30, illus. (b-w) 29.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 14.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Neck Amphora, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 25, illus. (color), detail (color) 22.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Neck Amphora, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 46, illus. (color) 47.
Exhibition HistoryBeverly Hills, CA, The Summa Galleries, Inc., December, 1976, cat. no. 3, illus.

Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, “Wealth of the Ancient World,” June 25-September 18, 1983; Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 19-December 11, 1983; Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, February 1-March 24, 1984; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, April 25-June 10, 1984, cat. no. 4, illus. (2 b-w views, 2 b-w details).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions,” September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

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