Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Obverse and reverse, athletes
The obverse shows a flute-player, a youth with jumping weights, and another holding staves. On the reverse, there are a trainer, a diskos thrower, and another youth with staves.
The obverse shows a flute-player, a youth with jumping weights, and another holding staves. On the reverse, there are a trainer, a diskos thrower, and another youth with staves.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
- Artist: Attributed to the Edinburgh Painter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 500 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm); width of mouth 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of El Conde de Lagunillas, 1956
- Object Number: 56.49.1
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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