Amphora: Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus and Maenad
![Two views (front and back) of a tapered red-and black vase. One view depicts a robed male figure with a lyre and an offering bowl facing a robed female figure with a bow and arrows and a flask. An altar is between them. The other view shows a bearded male figure with a long staff and a wine jar facing a female figure with a leopard-print outer garment. She holds up a snake toward the male.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ballets-russes/objects/40/@@images/585bca75-ec82-4a42-8601-41675a2a53df.jpeg)
Amphora: Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus and Maenad
- Description:
- Amphora, with Twisted Handles, Depicting Apollo and Artemis, and Dionysus and a Maenad
- Artist:
- Attributed to the Altamura Painter
- Medium:
- Terracotta; red figure
- Dimensions:
- H. 47.7cm; Diam. 23.5 cm
- Context:
- Greece, Attica, Athens found Capua, Italy
- Date:
- Classical, 470–450 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- MS5466
- Lender:
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Credit:
- Loaned by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Purchased from E. Canessa, 1916
Image courtesy of the Penn Museum, Object MS5466, Image #299950 [299951:back]