Amphora with Chariot and Amazon

second half 6th century BCE (Archaic)

17 cm 26.2 cm

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The central figures on one side of this vase are a seated man holding a staff, who faces an armed woman-indicated by the white skin-leading a horse. They could be Priam, the king of Troy described in the "Iliad," receiving Penthesilea, an Amazon queen. She fought against the G...

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23904
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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संस्कृति
Greek
माध्यम
terracotta; black figure

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