Tall black terracotta amphora with red-figure warriors, round shields, spears and a horse on its body, against a gray background.

Red-figure amphora with warriors, shields and a horse

A tall black-glazed terracotta amphora with twin handles and a banded neck. Red-figure warriors with round shields and spears crowd the body, with a horse and a rippled red shield visible among the broken figures. The surface shows losses and restoration.

Artist: Ixion Painter
Date: 340-330 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 843 × 1124 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

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