Object Image

Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

Athena to right, wearing her aegis, holding a spear in her right hand; part of an inscription, AT[HENA]

Credit: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011

Last quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure
2011.604.3.184
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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