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Terracotta neck-amphora

The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, to what would become the black-figure technique, which at this time was already practiced in Corinth. The main scene on the body continues the tradition of chariots in procession.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1921

Early 7th century B.C.
Terracotta
29.7 x 29.7cm
21.88.18
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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