Terracotta Neck-Amphora Attributed to the Painter of the Cambridge Hydria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; black-figure

Culture: Greek, Chalcidian

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 540 B.C.

Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Painter of the Cambridge Hydria

Dimensions: Overall: 11 1/2 x 7 3/16in. (29.2 x 18.2cm) diameter of body 6 7/16in. (16.3cm) diameter of foot 4 1/16in. (10.3cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Dodge Fund, 1963

Accession Number: 63.11.3


Description:

Obverse and reverse, on the shoulder, siren; on the body, cocks flanking a floral; under the handles, man running.

This type of very fine black-figure vase is found primarily in southern Italy and was probably made there. It is known as Chalcidian because some examples carry inscriptions in the script used at the city of Chalkis, on the island of Euboea.

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