Detail of an Etruscan Terracotta Amphora Attributed to the Painter of Munich 833 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; black-figure

Culture: Etruscan

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 530–525 B.C.

Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Painter of Munich 833

Dimensions: H. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922

Accession Number: 22.139.83


Description:

Obverse, symplegma
Reverse, running satyr

An aroused satyr runs from one side of the vase to the symplegma (scene of sexual intercourse) on the opposite side. The painter was clearly inspired by Attic black-figure vases with similar subjects.


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