WORKSHOP OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Only a small number of Attic black-figured amphorae feature figural decoration confined to the shoulders between eyes.  Many, but not all, were thought by Beazley to be by the Antimenes Painter and his circle (see J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, p. 276).  Both sides of the present example, from the Workshop of the Antimenes Painter, feature a satyr and maenad between eyes, with a dog at the outer corner of each panel; one side has the addition of a bird to the right of the maenad.