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A Campanian red-figure neck amphora, attributed to near the…
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Melbourne
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21-Mar-2015
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A Campanian red-figure neck amphora, attributed to near the Chequer and Dirce Painters, circa 380 B.C. side a depicting a nude male youth to the left, leaning on a stele and wearing a radiate stephane, facing a draped female figure holding a ribbon to the right, at the centre a goose, with a quartered circle in the field side B depicting a Trojan war scene, with a helmeted Achilles fighting a Trojan at the left, Penthesilea attacking a fallen nude warrior at the right, with the bust of an archer and foliate sprigs in the field each scene enlivened with added paint, with a heavily decorated neck and shoulders in bands of decoration, wave pattern baseline, incised plaiting on the handles, elsewhere reserved, (losses to surface), 39.5 cm high Exhibited: Melbourne, University of Melbourne March 1988-July 2003; Melbourne, Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities (Monash University) November 2005 - April 2008 Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; ex Amati collection, mid 1970s
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Oriental: Zother