Detail of a Terracotta Neck-Amphora Attributed to the Pan Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019

Terracotta neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape (jar)
ca. 470 B.C.

Attributed to the Pan Painter


Object Details

Title: Terracotta neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape (jar)

Attributed to the Pan Painter

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 470 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: H. as restored 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920

Accession Number: 20.245


Obverse, kitharode (performer playing the kithara)
Reverse, judge

This vase is a counterpart to that of the Berlin Painter in its general shape, subject, and quality. The performer here is a mature, bearded man who seems to be advancing slowly. His mouth is closed, indicated that he is not singing as he plays. The Pan Painter revels in the detail of the instrument while at the same time showing the sweep of the long garment in perfectly controlled, economic lines.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250994