Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) ca. 540 Attributed to Group E On the body, obverse, Menelaos reclaiming his wife, Helen, after the Trojan War; reverse, flute player and dancersOn the neck, obverse and reverse, horsemen and youthsGroup E is the name given to a workshop of painters active during the middle of the sixth century Exekias, the greatest black-figure artist, began among them, and it is to him that the Group's name refers. Like the neck-amphora by Exekias himself, this one has an ample shape and decoration on the Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) 254876 : Attributed to
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) ca. 540 Attributed to Group E On the body, obverse, Menelaos reclaiming his wife, Helen, after the Trojan War; reverse, flute player and dancersOn the neck, obverse and reverse, horsemen and youthsGroup E is the name given to a workshop of painters active during the middle of the sixth century Exekias, the greatest black-figure artist, began among them, and it is to him that the Group's name refers. Like the neck-amphora by Exekias himself, this one has an ample shape and decoration on the Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) 254876 : Attributed to Group E, Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), ca. 540 , Terracotta, H. 14 5/8 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1956 ()
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