Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

Unknown

530–520 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

At the shoulder, a band of tongues; below, at the left, part of the head and the left hand of a filleted woman to right (maenad?); wreathed Dionysos to right, wearing a himation, holding a drinking horn in his left hand; head, neck, right shoulder and bent right arm, and tail of a satyr looking over his right shoulder at Dionysos

Artist

Unknown

Date

530–520 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