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Art Object

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Attributed to Group E 

Period:
Archaic
Date:
ca. 540 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:
H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Fletcher Fund, 1956
Accession Number:
56.171.18
  • Description

    On the body, obverse, Menelaos reclaiming his wife, Helen, after the Trojan War; reverse, flute player and dancers
    On the neck, obverse and reverse, horsemen and youths

    Group 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.

  • References

    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.

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