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Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
From the shoulder frieze of a neck-amphora, head of a fallen, helmeted warrior on the ground face down; round shield; lower torso, right buttock, thigh, and left leg of a warrior to right, with a round shield and a quiver?; lower torso, genitals, and legs of a warrior to right; two round shields with white dots; two thin black glaze lines divide the shoulder frieze and the body of the neck-amphora; below, at the left, a helmet crest; tail?; at the far right, helmet crest interrupting the double ground line at the juncture of the shoulder and body of the neck-amphora
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (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: 2011.604.3.344
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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