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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER
Side A: a marriage procession, perhaps Peleus and Thetis, showing the bride and groom being drawn in a four-horse chariot, the bearded man wearing a striped himation and a foliate wreath, holding the reins of the quadriga, while beside him stands his wife with her himation pulled over her head. The four horses are led by Hermes who wears his characteristic cloak, boots, petasos and carries a caduceus. Accompanying the marriage procession is a figure of Apollo, wearing a wreath and playing on a lyre, while behind him is an attendant woman wearing a broad headdress, her hand raised with palm upward
Side B: a standing figure of the goddess, Athena, wearing a high crested Attic helmet and scaly aegis with snake heads around the border, a spear beside her, looking back towards a bearded man wearing a himation and holding a staff, flanking her is Hermes holding his caduceus
Under the handles are scrolling palmettes and lotus buds, double palmettes around the neck and tongues around the shoulder, radiating triangles around the foot with frieze of interlocking lotus buds and key pattern, details in added purple and white, graffitto under the foot
circa 510 B.C.
16 1/8in. (41cm.) high
Side A: a marriage procession, perhaps Peleus and Thetis, showing the bride and groom being drawn in a four-horse chariot, the bearded man wearing a striped himation and a foliate wreath, holding the reins of the quadriga, while beside him stands his wife with her himation pulled over her head. The four horses are led by Hermes who wears his characteristic cloak, boots, petasos and carries a caduceus. Accompanying the marriage procession is a figure of Apollo, wearing a wreath and playing on a lyre, while behind him is an attendant woman wearing a broad headdress, her hand raised with palm upward
Side B: a standing figure of the goddess, Athena, wearing a high crested Attic helmet and scaly aegis with snake heads around the border, a spear beside her, looking back towards a bearded man wearing a himation and holding a staff, flanking her is Hermes holding his caduceus
Under the handles are scrolling palmettes and lotus buds, double palmettes around the neck and tongues around the shoulder, radiating triangles around the foot with frieze of interlocking lotus buds and key pattern, details in added purple and white, graffitto under the foot
circa 510 B.C.
16 1/8in. (41cm.) high