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Neck Amphora
Altamura Painter470-450 BCE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Neck Amphora
- Creator: Altamura Painter
- Date Created: 470-450 BCE
- Location Created: Capua, Campania, Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 47.7 x 23.5 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Ceramic
- Object Number: MS5466
- Manufacture Location/Mint: Attica
- Descriptive Note: Neck amphora (with twisted handles). A) Apollo and Artemis. Artemis at left, Apollo at right, an altar, with volutes, between them; both standing. Artemis, holding bow and arrows in left hand, seems to be pouring from an oinochoe onto the altar. Apollo, holding a kithara with his left hand, pours a libation from a phiale onto the altar. B) Dionysos and a maenad. Maenad at left, Dionysos at right. Maenad wears leopard's skin, holds oinochoe in right hand and a snake in the other. Dionysos faces her, standing, thyrsus in left hand and kantharos in right. Intact.
- Culture: Greek
- Credit Line: Purchased from E. Canessa, 1916
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