Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)
On the handle, a tripod; in the zone below the handle, [N]IKOSTHENES EPOIESEN; overlapping two zones, tail, buttock, and hind legs of a horse to left; leg of a draped warrior to right wearing a corselet and chitoniskos, with a greave; below the figures, black glaze; rays; the second fragment depicts, overlapping two zones, the forelegs of a horse to right; lower drapery and feet of a woman to right; part of the chest and forelegs of a horse to left; below the figures, black glaze; rays; the third fragment has part of a horse's tail
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.208a–c
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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