Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles

Painter of the Yale Oinochoe

ca. 470 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Obverse, youth pursuing woman Reverse, youth and boy holding lyre In this sword-brandishing youth, every Athenian would have recognized the stance of the figure of Aristogeiton in the famous group of statues of the Tyrannicides.

Artist

Painter of the Yale Oinochoe

Date

ca. 470 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1941