Athenian red-figure amphora: Menelaos and Helena

Classification

red-figure pottery ; belly amphora

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 55.2 cm

Date

470–450 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Artist

Altamura Painter

Iconography

Menelaos ; Attic helmet ; shield ; breastplate ; sword ; Helena ; himation ; chiton ; earrings ; maenad ; thyrsos ; libation bowl (phiale, patera); ivy wreath ; oenochoe

Production place

Athens

Findspot

Vulci

Present location

London, British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome

Inventory

1837,0609.71

ID

Per-6560

References

Walters, CVA Great Britain 4, III.I.c. 5, no. E 263, pl. 6.2a–b

See the vase on the website of the British Museum and the Beazley Archive.

Trails

THE TROJAN EPIC CYCLE ; The fall of Troy

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