Obverse, Apollo and Artemis flanking an altar Reverse, athlete and trainer
The Eucharides Painter worked in the black-figure as well as the red-figure technique. It is noteworthy that here he decorates the type of amphora that was typical before the invention of red-figure.
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Title:Terracotta amphora (jar)
Artist:Attributed to the Eucharides Painter
Period:Late Archaic
Date:ca. 490 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm) diameter 12 5/16 in. (31.3 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number:07.286.78
Said to be from Agrigento
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. pp. 3–4, fig. 5, New York: Plantin Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 19, pp. 44–45, pls. 21, 22, 169, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. p. 145, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 72, 213, pl. 53c, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 227, no. 9, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 347, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Coulié, Anne. 2000. "Les vases à reliefs thasiens de l'époque archaïque." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 124(1): p. 145 n. 105.
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