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Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Amazonomachy

Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Amazonomachy

Goltyr Painter

The “Tyrrhenian” style of the 6th century uses bands to frame figures. Side A shows the fight between the Amazons (with white skin indicating females) and the Athenians, called the Amazonomachy, roosters, panthers, and a ram. Side B shows a komast between swans, sphinxes, panthers, and rams.
Artist
Goltyr Painter
(Greek, Attic, 6th century B.C.E.)
Title
Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Amazonomachy
Date
ca. 565-550 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
1985.99
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

December 1980, Summa Galleries (Beverly Hills, CA) sold to Arthur J. Frank and Edith F. Frank (Milwaukee, WI); 11 December 1980, deposited on long-term loan to Elvehjem Museum of Art; 1985, gifted to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 26 January 2022]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. pp. 19, 42, no. 23; pl. 3
  • Beazley, J.D.. "Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase Painters." Oxford, 1971. p. 196

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