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The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, to what would become the black-figure technique, which at this time was already practiced in Corinth. The main scene on the body continues the tradition of chariots in procession.
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Title: Terracotta neck-amphora
Period: Proto-Attic
Date: early 7th century BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number: 21.88.18
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