Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses (c. 540 BCE): Art, History and Details

Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses (c. 540 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Although pieced together from many fragments (with some still missing), this sizeable amphora remains impressive. On each side, a horsemen and four figures are contained within a large, reserved panel beneath a lotus-palmette frieze. The scenes, which differ slightly from one another in various details, cannot be identified with known historical or mythological figures or episodes.

Object facts

• Title: Black-Figure Amphora (Type B; Storage Vessel): Men and Horses
• Date: c. 540 BCE
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 40.6 cm (16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1923.645

A detail from the museum

The two sides of this amphora are very similar—a horseman flanked by pairs.

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• R. H. "Recent Accessions of Greek Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 10, no. 10 (1923): 178-91.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.

View the collection record

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