Object Image

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Unknown Artist

Obverse, banquet scene

Reverse, maenad riding a mule between two satyrs

Although the subject of each side of the amphora is different, the men and women, the satyrs and maenad, and the mule all are under the same influence.

Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1926

Last quarter of 6th century B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure
38.4 x 38.4cm
26.60.29
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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