Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Battling Warriors (A); Dionysos and Satyrs (B) (c. 530–520 BCE): Art, History and Details

Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Battling Warriors (A); Dionysos and Satyrs (B) (c. 530–520 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is The Bateman Group; Lysippides Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–515 BCE).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Formerly owned by John Bateman, Esq., this amphora provided a name for the Bateman Group, five amphorae likely decorated by a single painter. On either side, a reserved panel holds a carefully composed scene: four striding soldiers above a fallen warrior; and four dancing satyrs around the wine god Dionysos. Similar scenes appear on other Bateman Group vases, as well as in the much larger body of work attributed to the more well-known Lysippides Painter.

Object facts

• Title: Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Battling Warriors (A); Dionysos and Satyrs (B)
• Date: c. 530–520 BCE
• Creator attribution: The Bateman Group; Lysippides Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–515 BCE)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1927.433

A detail from the museum

This vase was already old-fashioned when first made; its shape was preferred by earlier generations of vase painters.

Collection credit

The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Sotheby & Co. (London, England). Palaeolithic Implements, Egyptian, Greek, Cypriot and Roman Antiquities. London: Sotheby, 1926.
• Howard, R. “Orestes Sarcophagus and Greek Accessions.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 4 (1928): pp. 85-86, 90-91.

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