Amphora Fragment with Athena in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2023

Title: Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape

Period: Archaic

Date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; black-figure

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011

Accession Number: 2011.604.3.481a, b

On the larger fragment, at the shoulder, a band of tongues, alternating with black and red; below, on the obverse, head and upper body of a helmeted Athena to right wearing her aegis, with her round shield over her left arm, with her right arm bent, holding a spear in her right hand; end of helmet crest and bent arm of a warrior to right; Reverse, part of the leg of a draped male to left, wearing a black and red himation; separating the obverse and reverse, a horizontal palmette-lotus chain; the smaller fragment has a bit of the neck; at the juncture of the neck and shoulder, a ring; on the shoulder, a band of tongues alternating with black and red; at the far left, top of helmet crest interrupting the band of tongues; below, part of the horizontal palmette lotus-chain


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