object type / vase shape: Pseudo-Chalkidian neck-amphora with ovoid body
<p>- description neck A: 2 confronted cocks
- body A: sphinx, hoplite putting on helmet, hoplite, dog, youth putting on the reins on a horse: warriors arming and setting out (myhological scene?)
- neck B: 2 confronted lions, looking outwards
- body B: lion between 2 sphinxes
- production place: Messina (?)
- painter / group: Group of the Polyphemos-Amphora
- period / date: ripe / late archaic, ca. 530 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 34.6 cm
- findspot: Maremma toscana (probably from a necropolis): market at Sovana
- museum / inventory number: Firenze, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale 3776; formerly: Firenze, Uffizi, Regia Galleria 1671
- bibliography: Andreas Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen, Berlin, Leipzig 1927, 160.164-166
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