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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek Art of the Fifth... > Terracotta neck-amphora...
Terracotta neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape
Attributed to : Syleus

Date : approx. between 480 and 470 B.C.

Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1930)
Figures rouges
Item 21 on 77
Greek Antiquities
Container (Amphore)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Attique (Greece)


Description   

The distinctive shape of the Panathenaic prize amphora, with its broad shoulder and sharply tapering body, was adopted on a smaller scale for other vases.
Item(s) related   
Louvre Museum :
Grèce préclassique
Amphore attique à figures rouges
Amphore
Peintre de Berlin
approx. from 490 to 480 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Greek art at the Sixth Century B.C.
Terracotta neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape
Jar
Amphore
Figures noires
Peintre d'Antimenes
near 520 B.C.
Greek art at the Sixth through Fourth Century B.C.
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Amphore
Figures noires
Peintre Kleoprades
approx. from 525 to 500 B.C.
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