Date (first half of the 2nd c BCE); identification of scene (showing Penthesileia and Otere, and attribution of the episode to Arctinos' Aethiopis); place of creation (likely Boiotian): A. Zarkadas, 'Arctinus’ Aethiopis: A new testimony in a sherd of a Hellenistic Relief vase in the P. and A. Canellopoulos Museum', Τιμητικός τόμος για τη Σ. Δρούγου, Αθήνα 2016. P & A Canellopoulos Museum Inventory 2021. Accession: donated to Greek state in 1972.
Source subtype
Vessel
Period
Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)
Place of creation
🌍 Boiotia
Archaeological context
No place of recovery captured by MANTO
UNESCO status
In a collection or on the market prior to ratification
Collection
Μουσείο Παύλου και Αλεξάνδρας Κανελλοπούλου / Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens
Inventory number
Δ 743
Cites
📖 Aithiopis unnumbered fragment
Has depictions of
👤 Otrera Amazon👤 Penthesileia daughter of Ares and Otrera, Amazon
Commentary
Date (first half of the 2nd c BCE); identification of scene (showing Penthesileia and Otere, and attribution of the episode to Arctinos' Aethiopis); place of creation (likely Boiotian): A. Zarkadas, 'Arctinus’ Aethiopis: A new testimony in a sherd of a Hellenistic Relief vase in the P. and A. Canellopoulos Museum', Τιμητικός τόμος για τη Σ. Δρούγου, Αθήνα 2016. P & A Canellopoulos Museum Inventory 2021. Accession: donated to Greek state in 1972.
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