Frontal four horse chariot
- Title
- Frontal four horse chariot
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Oinochoe Old Catalogue 633 Vase B524
- Creator
- Amasis Painter Andokides
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Amasis Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 560-ca. 515 BCE); style of Andokides (Greek potter, active in Athens 530-510 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (jug). Design black on a red panel, with maeander above; accessories of white and purple. Quadriga seen from the front, the charioteer slightly bearded, with purple pilos and long white chiton, the folds indicated by wavy lines; on either side of him a small bird flying away. On the left is a male figure, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long white chiton, folds as before, and purple himation, spear in left hand. On the right is a nude beardless male figure with long tresses, purple pilos, and spear in right hand. Below the handle is painted the face of a tiger, with black markings on red, the ears in purple and white. --The British Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 550-530 BCE
- Subject
- Amasis Painter Black Figure Pottery III
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- oinochoai
- Date
- -0550/-0530
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_05281
- Item Locator
- Box 12, Section 2
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 21 cm Width: 16 cm Weight: 498 g
- Material
- pottery | painted; incised
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1842,0728.785
