Terracotta amphora (jar)
Nikoxenos Painter
ca. 500 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Obverse and reverse, the death of Priam Priam, king of Troy, has taken refuge at the altar of Zeus Herkeios. The Greek warrior Neoptolemos attacks with a spear from the left as Hecuba, Priam's wife, gesticulates in despair. The Nikoxenos Painter worked in both black-figure and red-figure. It is interesting that while he employed red-figure for the decoration, the type of amphora is that preferred by black-figure artists.
- Artist
- Nikoxenos Painter
- Date
- ca. 500 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
