Fragment of a terrracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Euphronios
ca. 520–510 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
3 15/16 × 3 1/16 × 3/16 in. (10 × 7.7 × 0.6 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Archaic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1983
Accession Number
1983.524.2
About the Artist
Euphronios
Euphronios was a vase painter and potter working in the red-figure technique in Athens from about 520 to 470 BCE. He signed his name on eighteen vases, six times as painter and twelve times as potter. To judge by their drawing style, the vases that he signed as potter seem to be later than those he signed as painter. In his early career Euphronios was one of a group of Athenian vase painters who h...