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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 820 views
Terracotta amphora (jar)
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 155
On the body, obverse, Menelaos reclaiming his wife, Helen, after the Trojan War; reverse, flute player and dancersOn the neck, obverse and reverse, horsemen and youthsGroup E is the name given to a workshop of painters active during the middle of the sixth century B.C. Exekias, the greatest black-figure artist, began among them, and it is to him that the Group's name refers. Like the neck-amphora by Exekias himself, this one has an ample shape and decoration on the shoulder.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1957. "Greek Vases from the Hearst Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15(7): pp. 166, 169.Scherer, Margaret R. 1967. "Helen of Troy." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 25(10): pp. 382-83, fig. 21.