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Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Departing Warrior with Chariot (A); Battling Warriors (B)

Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Departing Warrior with Chariot (A); Battling Warriors (B)

c. 520–510 BCE
Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

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

Description

The two sides of this neck-amphora both depict warriors—one preparing to depart for battle in a four-horse chariot, three doing battle on the other side. Two of those battling hold spears and so-called “Boiotian shields,” with cutout sides, while the vanquished warrior holds only a round shield, apparently having lost his weapon. The departing warrior also holds a round shield, but the faded devices of these round shields differ on the two sides (a rosette and a bucranium, respectively), suggesting that the warriors carrying them differ as well.
  • ?-1929
    (Mr. Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1929-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1496 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    R. H. "Greek Vases." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 7 (1930): 137-43. www.jstor.org
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 7, plates 10 & 11,I www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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