Fragment of a Black Figure Terracotta Amphora in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Fragment of a terracotta amphora (jar)

Attributed possibly to the Painter of Vatican 365

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 540–530 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; black-figure

Dimensions: Overall: 3 7/16 x 5 1/16in. (8.7 x 12.9cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920

Accession Number: 20.259


Description:

Youth steadying horses

The composition of which this is a part would have been a harnessing scene.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/251007