Neck Amphora
Amphora
MS552
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS552 |
Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
Manufacture Location | Corinth |
Creator | Politis Painter |
Locus | Tomb 5 |
Period | Middle Corinthian Period |
Date Made | 595-570 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Iconography | Girls | Women | Chorus | Offering Tray | Flutist | Man | Couch | Table | Food | Stool | Attendant | Seated Woman | Ceremony | Religion | Horse | Race | Spinning |
Description | Complete, in part mended. Three main zones of decoration: Lower zone, on lower wall; Middle zone, around point of greatest circumference; Shoulder zone. Lower zone: horse race proceeding to left. Middle zone: flutist in middle of obverse followed by chorus of 8 girls holding hands; then still proceeding right to left, a short female with trays of offerings on her head; next, a chorus of 7 girls holding hands followed by 4 women wearing himations, their hands not joined: matrons or priestesses?; last a chorus of 8 more girls ending up with the flute player. Obverse, shoulder panel: to left, a bearded man seated on couch before which is a table with food and a stool; he extends hand to man with staff; behind man on couch is a child and an attendant; behind man with staff is another attendant and at extreme right a seated woman spinning. Reverse, shoulder panel: 6 draped female figures. |
Height | 41 cm |
Outside Diameter | 32 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
Other Number | 6 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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