Greek Vase
Artist: Achilles Painter
Location: Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology
Date: circa 450 BC
Dimensions: 38 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £250 (Total: £250)
Vendor: Spink
Review number: 1877 (1957)
Description:
An Attic red-figured amphora of Naloan shape, Greek, c450BC, hitherto unknownDecorated by the Achilles Painter, an anonymous artist artist so-named for hisamphora in the Vatican (the most classical of all vase-painters). On the frontis a young man g An Attic red-figured amphora of Naloan shape, Greek, c450BC, hitherto unknown Decorated by the Achilles Painter, an anonymous artist artist so-named for his amphora in the Vatican (the most classical of all vase-painters). On the front is a young man grasping his spear, and on the back a single figure of a bearded man holding a staff. THe only vase by the Achilles painter outside the BM.
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