Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
Prometheus Painter
ca. 570–560 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Obverse, warrior between two roosters Reverse, two rams charging Vases of the Tyrrhenian Group, such as this one, are interesting for the transition that they document from an earlier tradition favoring animal subjects to later convention that made figural subjects predominant on black-figure neck-amphorae.
- Artist
- Prometheus Painter
- Date
- ca. 570–560 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1956
