| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Summary: | Side A: Man attacking youth. Side B: Zeus and a messenger (Ganymede?). |
| Ware: | Attic Black Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to The Affecter |
| Attributed By: | J.D. Beazley |
| Date: | ca. |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.403 m., D. 0.276 m. |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Neck amphora |
| Beazley Number: | 301299 |
| Period: | Archaic |
Condition:
There are chips on the handles and elsewhere. The glaze is streaked and uneven in color.
Decoration Description:
The mouth of the vessel is an echinus, the top flat and unglazed. The entire neck is glazed on the inside, and the round handles are completely glazed. On the shoulder, there is a tongue pattern terminated at each end by a scroll at the base of the handles. There is a fillet at the juncture of the neck and body, and then a tongue pattern over hanging lotus buds with dotted interstices below the juncture. The vase has an echinus foot, with rays above. A second, shorter set of rays is in the interstices.
Side A: Scene of a fight (?). A youth, with a fillet in his hair and wearing a necklace and chlamys, stands to the right. His arms are raised, and he steps in front of a bearded god or warrior to the left, who is striding towards him, with his spear raised. The attacking figure has a fillet in his hair and a scabbard at his side; he wears a short chiton and a nebris and carries a chlamys over his outstretched arm. To the right stands a bearded man wearing a chiton, himation, and a fillet. He holds a spear and stands in profile to the left. To the left is another man, who also holds a spear and gestures in alarm. Behind him, on the far left, is a man holding a staff or scepter; they are both dressed as the man on the right. All of the men, except the youth, have beards.
Side B: An enthroned king or god (Zeus?) gives instructions to a departing messenger. The seated figure faces right; he holds a spear, and wears a fillet, chiton and himation. The throne legs end in lions' feet, the backrest is in the form of a swan's head and neck, and the figure of a lion, head turned back and right forepaw raised,is mounted on the rung between the legs. The messenger moves away to the right, looking back and holding a wreath in his raised right hand. He wears a fillet and a necklace, and carries a chlamys over his right arm. There are three bearded onlookers wearing fillets, chitons, and himatia: two to the left and one to the right of the central figures. The first two each hold a spear, the third a spear and a wreath. Under each handle is a small rider carrying a spear, and an eagle in flight. The riders face toward and belong with Side A. The rider of handle A/B is bearded, his horse faces left, and the eagle follows. Rider B/A is beardless, his horse faces right, and the eagle flies in the oppostie direction. Both riders have fillets and wear short chitons.
One the neck, Side A, a man pursues a youth who turns to look back and raises his right arm. Both figures have fillets in their hair and garlands diagonally across their chests. Both are naked except for a chlamys carried over the right arm by the youth and the left by the man. The figures are flanked by two bearded spectators with fillets in their hair and wearing himatia and chitons. Each holds a spear in one hand and raises the other hand. Side B is similar, but the right onlooker is replaced by a second fleeing youth who wears a "necklace: and a chlamys and carries a spear.
Graffiti:
On the base is
Collection History:
Ex. colls. J. De Bammeville, W.H. Forman, E.P. Warren. H.L. Pierce Fund, 1899
Sources Used:
Other Bibliography:
Greek Art: Prehistoric Through Perikles. Art of Antiquity v.II, pt.1, fig. 172