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Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Departing Warriors (A); Dionysos and Satyrs (B)

Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Departing Warriors (A); Dionysos and Satyrs (B)

c. 520–510 BCE
Overall: 17.3 cm (6 13/16 in.)
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

A neck-amphora is a type of amphora with separately constructed neck and body.

Description

Small in scale but finely painted and well preserved, this amphora depicts two common but unrelated subjects: the departure of warriors (side A) and Dionysos and two satyrs (side B). The warriors include an archer, identified by his bow and quiver full of arrows, and a heavily armed foot-soldier, wearing helmet and greaves and holding a spear and shield emblazoned with a horse protome. The archer faces a woman, while the warrior stands between two men.
  • ?-1926
    Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1926-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Allentown Art Museum, Gloria Ferrari, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979. [Allentown, Pa.]: The Museum, 1979. pp. 44-5, No.19 (A, Part of A, B)
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 8, Plates II,2 & 12 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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