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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LIDDED NECK AMPHORA
540 B.C.
Side A: the music lesson; bearded figure playing the lyre with female standing by, small naked youth below
Side B: two hoplites, each wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and carrying circular shield
Double frieze of palmettes and lotus flowers with added red around the neck, alternating black and red tongues around the shoulder and elaborate palmettes, tendrils and lotus buds around the body, with added knobbed lid
9½ in. (24.0 cm.) high
540 B.C.
Side A: the music lesson; bearded figure playing the lyre with female standing by, small naked youth below
Side B: two hoplites, each wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and carrying circular shield
Double frieze of palmettes and lotus flowers with added red around the neck, alternating black and red tongues around the shoulder and elaborate palmettes, tendrils and lotus buds around the body, with added knobbed lid
9½ in. (24.0 cm.) high
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This amphora has been attributed to near the Princeton Painter and the Painter of Berlin 1686.