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Terracotta Amphora, accession 47.11.5 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection API record, read 2026-08-18

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access collection API record for an Attic terracotta amphora, Type B, signed by Taleides as potter and attributed to the Taleides Painter, ca. 540 to 530 BCE, Archaic period. The record carries the museum's own Getty AAT-linked subject tags Theseus and Minotaurs, together identifying Theseus slaying the Minotaur, a standard subject of Attic vase painting of this date. Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1947. Accession number 47.11.5.

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The holding museum's own open-access collection API record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its potter signature, attribution and accession number, carrying the museum's own controlled-vocabulary Theseus and Minotaurs tags, though no narrative description of the scene.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254578
Source Type
Museum
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Theseus, Figures

This source names Theseus directly: "The record carries the museum's own Getty AAT-linked subject tags Theseus and Minotaurs, together identifying Theseus slaying the Minotaur, a standard subject of Attic vase painting of this date."

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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