Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora (jar)?

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second quarter of the 5th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

On the larger fragment, lower part of a draped figure to right; in the center, buttocks and legs of a draped male to right, wearing a himation; part of the lower torso and thighs (with the right thigh and knee, seen from the front) of a draped male wearing a chitoniskos and himation, with his right hand on his hip; the smaller fragment has part of the drapery and arm of a male holding a pair of spears, and part of a draped male to right with a striped sceptre?

Artist

Unknown

Date

second quarter of the 5th century BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011