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Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora Fragment (comprised of 13 Joined Fragments)

Date

about 530 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Part of body and neck (composed of fourteen fragments). The neck is decorated with a band of addorsed palmette and lotus, with a double-chain across the middle. There is a ridge (painted red) at the base of the neck, with alternating red and black tongues below. A red line runs beneath these, followed by a band of black. On the body, from left: circular line, perhaps from a missing handle. A warrior wearing a high crested (black and white) Corinthian helmet faces right, with a shield on his leading left arm (seen in profile, white with red rim). Below, small part of the chariot cart (?), within which stands a charioteer holding reins. He wears a white-marked nebris, with a red belt. On his back is a Boeotian shield seen in profile, decorated with a frontal face of Dionysos (ivy in hair, red beard). The charioteer has short hair, red in front, with a carefully rendered beard. His head overlaps the uprasied arm of a warrior striding to right, who wears a Corinthian helmet with a high crest, cuirass, patterned chitoniskos and a greave (outlined with white dots) on his leading leg. On his left arm, he carries a Boeotian shield, decorated with white ivy leaves. His opponent is scarcely preserved, just part of the helmet (Corinthian, high crested) and shield. The two warriors attack one another with spears.

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