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.

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]