Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

A tall orange terracotta amphora with black-figure decoration. Above a band of stripes, a banquet scene shows a reclining figure beside a small table, and below, dark animals, possibly panthers, walk in a frieze around the body.

Look closer: Small decorative rosettes and a row of tongue motifs sit near the top of the neck, easy to overlook.

Artist

Ptoon Painter

Date

ca. 570–560 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3000 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Eugene Holman, 1959