Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Satyr and Horse (c. 520–510 BCE): Art, History and Details

Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Satyr and Horse (c. 520–510 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This small fragment preserves part of a harnessing scene. At left is part of the muzzled head of a horse, guided by a red-bearded satyr wearing a wreath. Before him are the hands of a charioteer—perhaps Dionysos—holding reins and a goad, with a branch in the background. The unfinished interior identifies this as part of a closed vessel, likely a neck-amphora.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Satyr and Horse
• Date: c. 520–510 BCE
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.533.c

A detail from the museum

Greek horsemen often muzzled their horses to prevent biting.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d.
• Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

View the collection record

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