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    "localId": "94974",
    "label": "Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus",
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    "id": "94974",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus",
    "description": "Comparison with better-preserved vases—and with other artworks and monuments, such as the famous Siphnian Treasury at Delphi—helps to fill in some of the action no longer surviving from the rest of this vase, which once showed Apollo and Herakles struggling for the Delphic tripod. One claw-footed leg of the tripod survives, across the chest of Zeus, the bearded figure who intervened to stop the quarrel between two of his sons. Apollo is the unbearded figure at left, while Herakles would have appeared beyond the break on the right.",
    "date": "c. 520 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.533.a",
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    "language": "en",
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.533.a/1915.533.a_web.jpg",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 1.2 x 0.7 cm (1/2 x 1/4 in.)",
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    "tombstone": "Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus, c. 520 BCE. Manner of Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 1.2 x 0.7 cm (1/2 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.533.a",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "findSpot": "Necropolis of Ferentum (Viterbo)",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 94978,
            "description": "Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo with Lyre, c. 520 BCE. Manner of Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 1.1 x 0.8 cm (7/16 x 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.533.f"
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    "didYouKnow": "The claw-footed tripod leg before Zeus's chest identifies the scene—the struggle for the Delphic tripod.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 306991",
            "url": "https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/recordDetails.asp?recordCount=54&start=0"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.",
            "page_number": "p. 715, No. 60"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. <em>Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters </em>(Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "122"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 6-7, Plate 9,1",
            "url": "https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={8DE021CE-10CB-400D-BF22-8AD65C7AA279}&startRef="
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn.<em> Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² &amp; Paralipomena</em>. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.",
            "page_number": "p. 73"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.533.a",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-01 11:05:54.518000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.533.a/1915.533.a_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 94974,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
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        "male"
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