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Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
At the top, a band of tongues, alternating with red and black; below, wreathed, bearded man to right, wearing a himation, holding two branches in his left hand; wreathed youth to right, wearing a himation, with a neck-amphora on his left shoulder, which he is grasping by the handle with his right hand; bearded man to right, wearing a short tunic?, holding branches in both hands, and in his left, a goat by the tether; bearded man to right, wearing a short tunic?, holding three branches in his right hand, and a kanoun in the left; framing the figures, palmette and lotus ornament; below, a band of upright lotus buds; framed by two black glazed lines at the top and bottom; rays
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: 2011.604.3.2961
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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