On the handle, Dionysos and two revelers Upper frieze, horse tamer between onlookers and two wrestlers Lower frieze, animal combats between onlookers
The aryballos is connected with the gymnasium and the palaistra (exercise ground). After exercising, men used oil to clean and care for their skin. The subjects here refer to major interests of young Athenians—horses, athletics, and symposia (drinking party).
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Title:Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)
Artist:Attributed to the Amasis Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 550 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm) diameter 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1962
Object Number:62.11.11
[Until 1962, with Robert E, Hecht, Jr.]; acquired in 1962, purchased from Robert E. Hecht, Jr.
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Moore, Mary B. 1987. "The Amasis Painter and Exekias: Approaches to Narrative." The Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World, Andrea P. A. Belloli, ed. p. 161, Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Carratelli, Giovanni Pugliese and Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. 1994. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale: Atlante delle Forme Ceramiche, Suppl. 2, Vol. 1. p. 183, fig. 217, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
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Moore, Mary B. 2004. "Horse Care as Depicted on Greek Vases before 400 B.C.." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 39: pp. 35, 52–54, fig. 33.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 92, pp. 87, 423, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Arbeid, Barbara, Elena Ghisellini, and Maria Rosaria Luberto. 2022. Ho Pais Kalos : Scritti Di Archeologia Offerti a Mario Iozzo per Il suo Sessantacinquesimo Compleanno pp. 143, n. 58, 285, fig. 6, 286, n. 40, Monte Compatri (RM): Edizioni Espera.
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