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Black-Figure Neck Amphora
Unknownca. 520- 500 B.C.
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: Black-Figure Neck Amphora
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 520- 500 B.C.
- Type: amphora
- Rights: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Eli Lilly
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/11714
- Medium: terracotta with white slip decoration
- wall label: Amphorai were double-handled containers used for storing and carrying oils and wine. The Leagros Group was a late 6th-century B.C. workshop of talented artists, whose red-figure vases were just beginning to replace vases made in the traditional black-figure technique.ÿOn one side, Dionysus and his male followers, called satyrs, carry off two maenads (female worshipers of Dionysus). As the god of wine, Dionysus was a popular figure on amphorai and kraters, which would have been used at drinking parties, or symposia.ÿÿHis drunken, licentious satyrs offer the kind of raucous camaraderie that would have been at home at an all-male symposium.
- measurements: H: 17 1/2 in.
- culture: Greek
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