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Terracotta Neck Amphora Attributed to Group E in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Terracotta Neck Amphora Attributed to Group E in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Attributed to Group E

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 540 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.171.18

Description:

On the body, obverse, Menelaos reclaiming his wife, Helen, after the Trojan War; reverse, flute player and dancers

On the neck, obverse and reverse, horsemen and youths

Group E is the name given to a workshop of painters active during the middle of the sixth century B.C. Exekias, the greatest black-figure artist, began among them, and it is to him that the Group's name refers. Like the neck-amphora by Exekias himself, this one has an ample shape and decoration on the shoulder.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

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