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Unknown Maker, Greek

Storage Jar (Amphora)
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Maker

Unknown Maker, Greek

Culture

Greek

Title

Storage Jar (Amphora)

Period

Archaic (Greek)

Year

550-525 BCE

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

clay

Geography

Place Made: Attica

Dimensions

Height: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund and Special Gift Fund

Object Number

25.083

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 17: Variance

This issue complements the RISD Museum exhibition Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability, on view through October 9, 2022.

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

Demeter and Persephone flank Triptolemus, who rides a chariot and holds wheat spears and a scepter. Demeter, the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, taught Triptolemus the art of agriculture so that he could show the Greeks how to plant and reap crops.

—GB

Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries
Sep 22, 2010

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Greek
Storage Jar (Amphora), 550-525 BCE
Terracotta; black-figure
Height: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund and Special Gift Fund 25.083

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