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Two-handled jar (amphora)
Italic, Etruscan
Late Archaic Period
about 480 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.158
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 571.
DescriptionSide A: Two satyrs dancing to right. Between them a tree(?).
Side B: Two satyrs one to right, the other to left, both heads to left. Between them and in field to right a tree (?) with leaves incised. The satyrs have white hair and tails, and those of (A) have red fillets around their heads, neck and right thighs.
On the neck, stylized ivy leaves and addorsed palmettes. On the shoulder, a chain of lotus buds with an alternation of opening and closed petals. Around the handles, five palmettes connected by tendrils, with lotus buds at the branchings of the tendrils.
Cracked in baking.
Side B: Two satyrs one to right, the other to left, both heads to left. Between them and in field to right a tree (?) with leaves incised. The satyrs have white hair and tails, and those of (A) have red fillets around their heads, neck and right thighs.
On the neck, stylized ivy leaves and addorsed palmettes. On the shoulder, a chain of lotus buds with an alternation of opening and closed petals. Around the handles, five palmettes connected by tendrils, with lotus buds at the branchings of the tendrils.
Cracked in baking.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: From Cerveteri. Probably made near Cervetri since a vase cracked in the baking & so badly cracked would not be likely to have been exported from the place of its fabrication); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913