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Attic Geometric Amphora

Date

about 720 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Amphora with a tall neck and high upright handles. The figural decoration is limited to the neck and shoulder. The lip is decorated with short, vertical lines, and the top of the neck has a band of crosshatched zigzags. On side A, the neck is decorated with a horse facing right, with a bird standing underneath. Above the back of the horse is an attenuated dipylon shield (lookng like a sideways "H") and another bird. To the left is a column of vertical "M" motifs. The horse is tethered to an upside-down U-shaped object. A similar scene is depicted on side B, but.with a checkered diamond beneath the horse instead of a bird, and no column of "M"s. On the shoulder, both A and B, are two hounds, running to the right. The rest of the vessel's body is decorated with three sets of zizag lines and multiple solid bands.

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