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
Object Number:21.88.18
[Until 1921, with Elias Yayas, Paris]; acquired in 1921, purchased from E. Yayas.
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