Neck Amphora with Scenes of Peleus, Thetis, and Achilles

ca. 520-510 BCE (Archaic)

26.7 cm 40.6 cm

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Both sides of this amphora are decorated with themes concerning Achilles' conception and the accession to manhood. Side A refers to him indirectly, showing the encounter and the binding of his parents: the divine Nereid Thetis and the mortal hero Peleus, who was renowned for h...

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2427
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [cat. no. 203]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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