Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)

last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Not on view
On the neck, a satyr running to right, chasing a draped woman who is looking back at the satyr and grasps her garment in her left hand; tail, calf, and left leg of a second satyr; on the shoulder, a band of red and black tongues; below, a tendril

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  • Title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)
  • Period: Archaic
  • Date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Attic
  • Medium: Terracotta; black-figure and white-ground
  • Dimensions: 4 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (10.8 × 9.5 × 6 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.604.3.228
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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