Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Attributed to the Ptoon Painter

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 155

Obverse, banqueting scene, possibly Dionysos and Ariadne
Reverse, Herakles and Acheloös

By the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., figural subjects and particularly mythological motifs predominated over animal friezes on Attic vases. The man-headed bull on the reverse identifies the scene as Herakles subduing the river-god Acheloös. The banquet on the obverse may depict the god of wine, Dionysos, with Ariadne, a daughter of King Minos of Crete. Dionysos married her after she was abandoned by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Attributed to the Ptoon Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Attributed to the Ptoon Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Attributed to the Ptoon Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Attributed to the Ptoon Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Attributed to the Ptoon Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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