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Two-handled jar (neck-amphora) with three youths on horseback (Side A) and two dancing youths between two sphinxes (Side B)
Painter: Polyphemus-Group
Greek, South Italian
Archaic Period
about 530 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: South Italy, Magna Graecia, Rhegion (?)
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black-Figure
Dimensions
Height: 38.5 cm (15 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert E. Hecht, Jr.
Accession Number61.942
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionPseudo-Chalcidian black-figure (made in Rhegion or environs)
On neck: frieze of lotus-flowers and buds; white used for the ceters of the flowers, red for the buds. Red and black dentils on the shoulder.
Side A: Three youths on horseback, galloping to right.
Side B: Two dancing youths between two sphinxes.
Red and white colors applied for details.
Broken and meded, with restorations (repainted at the legs of the right dancing youth and the breast of the right-hand sphinx).
On neck: frieze of lotus-flowers and buds; white used for the ceters of the flowers, red for the buds. Red and black dentils on the shoulder.
Side A: Three youths on horseback, galloping to right.
Side B: Two dancing youths between two sphinxes.
Red and white colors applied for details.
Broken and meded, with restorations (repainted at the legs of the right dancing youth and the breast of the right-hand sphinx).
ProvenanceSaid to have come from Vulci; by 1961: with Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Malzgasse 25, Basel, Switzerland (auction 22, May 13, 1961, lot 117); sold to Robert E. Hecht, Jr.; gift of Robert E. Hecht, Jr. to MFA, September 20, 1961