Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Ptoon Painter

ca. 570–560 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Obverse, banqueting scene, possibly Dionysos and Ariadne Reverse, Herakles and Acheloös By the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., figural subjects and particularly mythological motifs predominated over animal friezes on Attic vases. The man-headed bull on the reverse identifies the scene as Herakles subduing the river-god Acheloös. The banquet on the obverse may depict the god of wine, Dionysos, with Ariadne, a daughter of King Minos of Crete. Dionysos married her after she was abandoned by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Artist

Ptoon Painter

Date

ca. 570–560 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Eugene Holman, 1959