Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
ca. 480–470 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
H. x diameter 12 x 7 5/8 in. (30.5 x 19.4 cm); diameter of foot 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); diameter of mouth 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1925
Accession Number
25.189.3
Tags
About the Artist
Brygos Painter
The Brygos Painter is one of the most gifted and prolific red-figure vase painters of ancient Athens, active in the early fifth century BCE during one of the most dynamic periods of Greek artistic development. Like most ancient Greek vase painters, he is known to us not by his personal name but by a conventional scholarly designation — in this case derived from the potter Brygos, whose name appear...