CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.

Centered on either side between eyes is a winged goddess, probably Iris, running to the right but looking back. Unusually, as seen here, she has two sets of wings, one pair sickle-shaped, upraised, and one pair lowered. She wears a nebris over a short chiton and winged boots. Vines encircle the handles, and details are in added red and white. For a similarly-clad Iris, excluding boots, between eyes on the shoulder of a neck-amphora see A. Kossatz-Deissmann, “Iris I,” in LIMC, vol. V, no. 11a.