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Terracotta fragments of an amphora (jar)

480–470 BCE
Not on view
The largest fragment depicts part of the draped body of a male to right, wearing a chlamys, holding a stick in his right hand; at the far left, start of handle root; a second fragment has part of the head and neck of a wreathed youth looking to left; a third fragment shows a bit of the lower drapery of a figure and toes of the right foot; a fourth fragment has a left hand; a fifth fragment has a bit of drapery?; a sixth fragment has an unidentified object; a seventh fragment is black glaze with the start of the handle root; four black glaze fragments

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta fragments of an amphora (jar)
  • Period: Early Classical
  • Date: 480–470 BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Attic
  • Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.604.2.1998a–k
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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