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Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

ca. 620–590 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 152
Corinthian potters and painters invented a technique of silhouetted forms that would evolve into the black figures of Athenian vase painting. Typically, their vessels, like this neck amphora, are decorated with tapestry-like patterns of small animals and plant motifs. A variety of animals- bulls, lions, birds and goats march around the belly of this vase, and multiple rosettes fill the background. Above the queue of exquisite animals is a padded dancer, who stands between two lions.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
  • Period: Early Corinthian
  • Date: ca. 620–590 BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Corinthian
  • Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
  • Dimensions: H.: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
  • Object Number: 06.1021.18
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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