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Lot Essay
This amphora is a prime example of the role that arms and armour – particularly Corinthian helmets – play in the decoration of vases in the 6th century B.C.
Both sides of this amphora feature warriors among horses. On the obverse, a bearded charioteer, wearing a long white chiton, drives a quadriga of galloping horses to the right. In the chariot stands a warrior, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and a short chiton, and holding a shield. He lunges forward toward another warrior, similarly clad but wearing distinctive greaves, who moves to the right but looks back. To the right is another warrior moving right but looking back, who wears a high-crested helmet, but with a patterned cuirass, chiton and greaves adorned with red pigment. On the reverse is a departure scene with a charioteer and horses at rest. Beside the horses is a warrior, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and holding a shield, who looks to the left. To the right stands a diminutive draped youth. Both sides are framed above by a lotus-palmette chain.
Group E is the name Beazley gave "to a large and compact group, which is very closely related to the work of the painter Exekias" and is "the soil from which the art of Exekias springs" (see p. 133 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters). For a similar example, see the amphora in the Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, p. 138 in Beazley, op. cit.
Both sides of this amphora feature warriors among horses. On the obverse, a bearded charioteer, wearing a long white chiton, drives a quadriga of galloping horses to the right. In the chariot stands a warrior, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and a short chiton, and holding a shield. He lunges forward toward another warrior, similarly clad but wearing distinctive greaves, who moves to the right but looks back. To the right is another warrior moving right but looking back, who wears a high-crested helmet, but with a patterned cuirass, chiton and greaves adorned with red pigment. On the reverse is a departure scene with a charioteer and horses at rest. Beside the horses is a warrior, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and holding a shield, who looks to the left. To the right stands a diminutive draped youth. Both sides are framed above by a lotus-palmette chain.
Group E is the name Beazley gave "to a large and compact group, which is very closely related to the work of the painter Exekias" and is "the soil from which the art of Exekias springs" (see p. 133 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters). For a similar example, see the amphora in the Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, p. 138 in Beazley, op. cit.