Amphora (Storage Jar) (490-480 BCE): Artwork and History

Amphora (Storage Jar) (490-480 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Attributed to the Michigan Painter Greek; Athens.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

On one side of this vase, Dionysos is flanked by satyrs. The god moves to the right but looks back to the left. He holds up a kantharos (drinking cup) in his left hand. Both satyrs move to the right; that on the left is ithyphallic and plays a kithara. On the other side, a maenad wearing a sakkos (hat) and holding a krotala is flanked on either side by a satyr.

Object facts

• Title: Amphora (Storage Jar)
• Date: 490-480 BCE
• Artist attribution: Attributed to the Michigan Painter Greek; Athens
• Place of origin: Greece
• Medium: terracotta, black-figure
• Dimensions: 21.2 × 13.9 × 13.9 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
• Type: Vessel
• Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• Reference number: 1889.97

Collection credit

Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

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