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Amphora
Painter: the Affecter
Greek
Archaic Period
about 540–530 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
40.8 cm (16 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number13.76
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
CVA Boston 1, pl. 19.
DescriptionThe body entirely black except for the rays at the bottom.
On the neck: A. At the left a bearded man in a richly decorated mantle holding a staff in his right hand; his left is raised towards two men wearing the chlamys. The fourth figure like the first but without a staff. B. Similar to A., the second figure being nude, with his chlamys over his arm. At the junction of the neck and shoulders a tongue pattern, red and black, above a chain of lotus-buds. Repaired.
On the neck: A. At the left a bearded man in a richly decorated mantle holding a staff in his right hand; his left is raised towards two men wearing the chlamys. The fourth figure like the first but without a staff. B. Similar to A., the second figure being nude, with his chlamys over his arm. At the junction of the neck and shoulders a tongue pattern, red and black, above a chain of lotus-buds. Repaired.
ProvenanceLent by W. S. Bigelow, 1877; made a gift Jan. 2, 1913.