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Attic Black-Figure Amphora (Tyrrhenian)

Date

560–555 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

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Black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora that has been restored from fragments. One handle is missing. The rim is painted black, with two red bands within and on the outer edge. The neck has a lotus and palmette pattern. The shoulder has a pattern of alternating red and black tongues. The main frieze on side A is decorated with five figures: a female dancing to the left, looking back; a ithyphallic satyr facing right, holding shoulder of a female, facing right, with a wreath in her left hand; a satyr with a red-painted torso and large flaccid phallus, running to the right, towards a krater; and a satyr with red hair and a beard standing on the right side of the krater, facing left. Side B has only one extant fragment of a warrior facing right. The lower friezes include: two bands of dots; lotus and palmette frieze; animal frieze with a goose, rams, felines, lion attacking deer; another animal frieze with felines, a lion, a ram, a deer; and rays at the base.

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