Terracotta amphora (jar)
Obverse, battle scene with quadriga (4-horse chariot)
Reverse, departing warriors
Battle scenes like the one on this amphora would have brought to mind Homeric passages such as this:
As inhuman fire sweeps on in fury through the deep angles
of a drywood mountain and sets ablaze the depth of
the timber and the blustering wind lashes the flame
along, so Achilleus swept everywhere with his spear
like something more than a mortal harrying them as
they died, and the black earth ran blood.
(Iliad, book 20, lines 490-94).
Reverse, departing warriors
Battle scenes like the one on this amphora would have brought to mind Homeric passages such as this:
As inhuman fire sweeps on in fury through the deep angles
of a drywood mountain and sets ablaze the depth of
the timber and the blustering wind lashes the flame
along, so Achilleus swept everywhere with his spear
like something more than a mortal harrying them as
they died, and the black earth ran blood.
(Iliad, book 20, lines 490-94).
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta amphora (jar)
- Artist: Attributed to the Princeton Painter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 500–490 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm)
diameter of mouth 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
diameter of foot 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956
- Object Number: 56.171.9
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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