Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)

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last quarter of the 6th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

The larger fragment depicts the beard, neck, and upper torso, with left arm bent of a male to left (satyr?); the smaller fragment has part of the upper torso of a man to right (satyr?); the figures on each fragment overlap the rib that divides each zone of the amphora

Artist

Unknown

Date

last quarter of the 6th 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