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Funeral Amphora

Funeral Amphora

Public Domain

Artist
CultureGreek (Attic)
Titles
  • Funeral Amphora
  • Black-Figured Amphora
Date800–700 BC
PlaceGreece
MediumTerracotta
Dimensionsheight × diameter: 20 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches

Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan
Object number37.92
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
200 Jamail Atrium
On view

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
ProvenanceSaid to have been excavated near Marcopoulos, 1920; [Theodore Zoumpoulakis, Athens, 1920–1935]; purchased by Miss Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), Houston, 1935–1937; given to MFAH, 1937.
Exhibition History"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, Tex., October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tex., February 3–April 1, 1971; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 16–July 11, 1971.
Published References Hoffman, Herbert. Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections. Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, 1971. Fig. 152. King, Cynthia. "More Pots by the Mesogeia Painter." American Journal of Archaeology 80 (1976): 79-82. Pl. 13, fig. 3.

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