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Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora Fragment
Creator
AffecterPainter
All works by this person →In Athens in the period from about 540 to 520 B.C., the artist known as the Affecter worked as both a potter and vase-painter. The Affecter may have learned his trade from the Amasis Painter, one of the leading artists of the preceding generation, but he quickly diverged from the conventional path in both his potting and painting. The Affecter's potting was technically excellent. Most of his survi
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- about 530 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
On the shoulder: frieze of open lotuses. On the body: i) arm of figure facing left, (ii) bearded male to left with long hair, wearing a wreath, in a red robe and patterned mantle. He holds a circular object (ring? wreath?) in his left hand. There is a tendril at the location of the missing handle. Under the handle is a figure moving right. Mommsen (1975) indicates that this fragment belongs with an amphora in Arezzo (Beazley 1956, 244.49).
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