Amphora

MS3498A

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS3498A
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Manufacture Location Attica
Period Archaic Greek Period
Date Made 560-540 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Castor | Horseman | Pollux
Description

A & B, in panel, each two frontal horsemen (Dioskouroi?). Missing and restored in plaster: a bit of foot and large sections, including both handles, of all other elements of form. Polydeuces present?

Height 50.9 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

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