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Download Document OBJECT LIST Note: Images for objects marked with ** are available on request. INTRODUCTION Amphora with the Birth of Athena Terracotta, H. 40.9 cm Statue of a Young Boy Attic black-figure, attributed to Marble, H. 87.6 cm Group E, ca. 550 BC Hellenistic, 2nd cent. BC–1st cent. AD New Haven, Yale University Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Museum Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., B.A., 1913 Fund ** Grave Stele of Girl Apollonia Marble, H. 112.4 cm, W. 63.5 cm, Calyx-Krater with Birth of D. 20 cm Erichthonios Hellenistic, ca. 100 BC Terracotta, H.37.9 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum Attic red-figure, attributed to the Nikias painter, ca. 400 BC Virginia Museum of Fine Arts MYTH Purchase, The Glasgow Fund Statue of a Child Hero, possibly Herakles Statuette of Silenos and Dionysos Bronze, H. 62.2 cm Terracotta, H. 12.7 cm Hellenistic, first century B.C. Late Classical, ca. 350 BC The Saint Louis Art Museum Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Stamnos with Theseus and the Minotaur Amphora with Achilles and the Terracotta, H. 36.4 cm Centaur Chiron Attic red-figure, attributed to the Terracotta, H. 41.3 cm Copenhagen Painter, ca. 470 BC Attic black-figure, attributed to the Private Collection Group of Würzburg 199, ca. 520–510 BC Calyx Krater with Medea’s Murdered Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Children; Baby Orestes Terracotta, H. 50.5 cm, Diam. 49.9 cm Coin with Hermes and Arkas Lucanian red-figure calyx-krater, Silver stater attributed to near the Policoro Painter, Pheneos, Arcadia, ca. 362–300 BC ca. 400 BC Rhode Island School of Design Cleveland Museum of Art Chous with Kallisto, Arkas and Hermes BIRTH AND NURTURE Terracotta, H. 16.8 cm Apulian red-figure, attributed to near the Black Fury Group, 360 B.C. Pelike with the Birth of Helen J. Paul Getty Museum Terracotta, H. 32.7 cm Apulian red-figure, attributed to the Pelike with Kronos and Rhea Painter of Athens 1680, ca. 360-350 B.C. Terracotta, H. 35.1 cm Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Antikensammlung Attic red-figure, attributed to the Nausicaa Painter, ca. 460–450 BC Metropolitan Museum of Art -more- Page 2 Hydria with Baby Herakles Wrestling Snakes Statuette of W oman Bre astfeeding Terracotta, H. 36.4 cm Terracotta, H. 20.1 cm Attic red-figure, attributed to the Nausicaa Painter, Hellenistic, 1st c. B.C.–1st c. A.D. ca. 460–450 BC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Metropolitan Museum of Art Statuette of Standing Old Nurse with Boy and Girl Coin with Herakles Strangling Snakes Terracotta, H. 14.3 cm Silver stater Hellenistic?, ca. 300–275 B.C. Croton, Bruttium, mid 4th c. B.C. Private collection American Numismatic Society Statuette of Seated Old Nurse Holding Infant Statuette of the Infant Herakles Strangling Snakes Terracotta, H. 23.5 cm Bronze, H. 12 cm Hellenistic, ca. 350–325 BC Hellenistic, 3rd century BC Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Brooklyn Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. M. C. Sloss Charles Edwin Wilbur Fund Statuette of Standing Nurse Holding Infant Lekythos with Danae and Perseus Terracotta, H. 13.7 Terracotta, H. 40.5 Hellenistic, 325–300 BC Attic red-figure, attributed to the Providence Metropolitan Museum of Art Painter, ca. 470 BC Rogers Fund, 1910 Toledo Museum of Art Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1969 Mycenaean Side-spouted Jar or Baby-feeder Terracotta, H. 10. 5 cm Lekythos with Zeus Chasing Ganymede Late Helladic III A2, ca. 1350 B.C. Terracotta, H. 37.8 cm Haverford College, Collection of Greek Attic red-figure, attributed to the manner of the Antiquities Achilles Painter, ca. 440–430 BC Bequest of Ernest Allen Indianapolis Museum of Art Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly Corinthian Feeding Cup Terracotta, H. 5.6 cm Kylix with Zeus Chasing Ganymede Late Corinthian, 550–500 B.C. Terracotta, H. 13.3 cm; W. 40.7 cm University of Missouri-Columbia, Museum of Art Attic red-figure, signed by Douris, ca. 480 B.C. and Archaeology J. Paul Getty Museum Baby Feeder in the form of a Pig DOMESTIC, EDUCATION, TRAINING Terracotta, H.4.9 cm, L. 9.9 cm Sicilian, ca. 450 BC Cleveland Museum of Art Grave Stele with Woman in Labor Gift of Leo Mildenberg Pentelic marble, H. 83.8 cm, W. 55.9 cm Late Classical, ca. 330 BC Baby Feeder in the form of a Pomegranate Harvard University Art Museums Terracotta, H. 10 cm., Diam. 9 cm. Gift of Edward W. Forbes South Italian black-glaze, 4th–3rd century BC University of North Carolina, Ackland Art Grave Relief of Mother and Maid with Infant Museum Marble, H. 44.5 cm, W. 50.8 cm Late Classical, ca. 375–370 BC ** Kylix with Child on Potty and Mother Houston Museum of Fine Arts Terracotta, H. 3 cm, Diam. 12.7 cm Annette Finnigan Collection Attic Red-figure, Sotades Painter Workshop Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire, Brussels BABIES Statuette of a Crawling Baby Statuette of Woman Holding Child Bronze, H. 2.8 cm, L. 4.8 cm Terracotta, H. 13.3 cm Late Minoan I, ca. 1550–1450 B.C. Mycenaean, Late Helladic III, ca. 1400–1150 BC Provenience: Diktaean Cave, Crete North Carolina Museum of Art Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Gift of Mr. And Mrs. Gordon Hanes Gift of Sir Arthur J. Evans -more- Page 3 Statuette of a Seated Girl with Outstretched Arms EDUCATION Terracotta, H. 5.8 cm Hellenistic, ca. 330–310 BC Statuette of Boy with Seated Paidagogos (tutor) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Terracotta, H. 12.4 cm Bequest of Susan C. Warren Hellenistic, ca. 375–350 BC Metropolitan Museum of Art Statuette of Sleeping Babies Avery Fund, 1923 Bronze, H. 2.4 cm, Greatest Dimension 5.3 cm Hellenistic Kylix with School Scenes Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Terracotta, H. 11.5 cm, W. 36.2 cm Attic red-figure, signed by Douris, OIKOS ca. 490–480 BC Staatliche Museen, Berlin Hydria with Mother, Child and Nursemaid Terracotta, H. 34.6 cm, Diam 24.6 cm ** Kylix with Courting Scenes Attic red-figure, attributed to the circle of Terracotta, H. 11.9 cm, Diam. 31.2 cm, W. with Polygnotos, ca. 440–430 BC handles 38.8 cm Harvard University Art Museums Attic red-figure, signed by Douris, ca. 480 BC Bequest of David Moore Robinson J. Paul Getty Museum Pyxis with Depiction of Women’s Quarters Kylix Fragment with Boy Reading Scroll Terracotta, H. 23.9 cm Terracotta, Greatest Extent: 6.75 cm Attic red-figure, attributed to by or near the Attic red-figure, attributed to the Aberdeen Painter, ca. 450 BC Akestorides Painter Dallas Museum of Fine Arts J. Paul Getty Museum Gift of the Junior League of Dallas ** Kylix with School Scene of Girls (?) Woman and Child Terracotta, H. 15.1 cm, W. 45.7 cm Terracotta, H. 27.3 cm Attic red-figure, attributed to the Painter of Early Classical, ca. 470–460 BC Bologna 417, ca. 460 BC From Lokroi, S. Italy Metropolitan Museum of Art Spurlock Museum WRITING ** Statuette of Woman Carrying Child on Shoulders Terracotta, H.15.3 cm, W. 5.25 cm Kylix with Boy Writing Boiotian, Late Archaic, ca. 500–475 BC Terracotta, H. 7.4 cm. W. 27.5 cm J. Paul Getty Museum Attic red-figure, attributed to the Eucharides Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Painter, ca. 480 BC University of Pennsylvania Museum Alabastron with Woman and Children Terracotta, H. 18.3 cm Stylus Attic red-figure, attributed to the Villa Giulia Bronze, L. 12.4 cm Painter, ca. 460–450 BC Cypriot, Classical-Hellenistic Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum appropriation and special gift Inkwell in the Shape of a Ball ** Group Statuette of Seated Old Man Offering Glossed black terracotta, H. 5 cm, D. 6.4 cm Grapes to a Girl Greek, 3rd century B.C. Terracotta, H. 11 cm Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam Archaic Boiotian, ca. 500–475 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Ostrakon Terracotta, H. 5.5 cm Group Statuette of Woman Teaching Girl to Cook Graeco-Egyptian, from Thebes in Egypt Terracotta, H. 10.7 cm University of Sydney, The Nicholson Museum Boiotian, Archaic, ca. 500–475 BC Gift of Dr. S Angus and R.W. Gillespie, 1936 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -more- Page 4 Tablet with Writing Strigil Wood, H. 10.2 cm, W. 35.7 cm Bronze, Length 22.3 cm Graeco-Egyptian, 4th c. B.C. Roman, A.D. 1 - 100 University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Ancient J. Paul Getty Museum Archaeology Girl’s Training as Entertainers Papyrus with Writing Papyrus, H. 9.3 cm, W. 11.5 cm Statuette of Girl with Tambourine Graeco-Egyptian, 3rd c. B.C. Terracotta, H.13.3 cm University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Ancient Hellenistic, ca. 325 BC Archaeology From Aegina Museum of Fine Arts, Boston TRAINING – BOYS AND GIRLS Pelike with Girl Dancing to Double Pipes and Girl Boy’s Athletics Spinning Terracotta, H. 30.3, Diam. 21.4 cm Kylix with youthful Athlete Attic red-figure, attributed to the Earlier Terracotta, H. 9.5 cm, Diam. 19.6 cm Mannerists, ca. 460 BC Attic red-figure, attributed to the Epidromos Stanford University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Painter, ca. 520–500 BC Center for Visual Arts Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Gift of Mrs. Jane. L. Stanford Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Smith, Class of 1918 Lekythos with Girl Learning to Dance Chous with Boy Boxers Terracotta, H.
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