Terracotta olpe (jug)
Amasis Painter
ca. 520 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Courting scene A bearded man in an elaborate fringed cloak approaches a woman who holds a myrtle branch and offers him a rose. She is dressed like a bride with her cloak pulled over her head and a wreath of myrtle in her hair.
- Artist
- Amasis Painter
- Date
- ca. 520 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Frederick P. Huntley Bequest, 1959
