The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access collection API record for an Attic terracotta hydria (kalpis, water jar), attributed to the Berlin Painter, ca. 500 BCE, Classical period, Rogers Fund 1910. The record carries the museum's own Getty AAT-linked subject tags Achilles, Amazons and Shields, and the object is also returned by the museum's own search for Penthesilea, the Amazon queen, together identifying the combat of Achilles and Penthesilea, a standard subject of Attic vase painting of this date. Accession number 10.210.19.
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The holding museum's own open-access collection API record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its date, attribution and accession number, carrying the museum's own controlled-vocabulary Achilles, Amazons and Shields tags, though no narrative description of the scene. Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248307
Source TypeMuseum
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This source names Achilles directly: "The record carries the museum's own Getty AAT-linked subject tags Achilles, Amazons and Shields, and the object is also returned by the museum's own search for Penthesilea, the Amazon queen..."
Source Terracotta hydria (kalpis), accession 10.210.19 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 2 connected.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 connected.
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