object type / vase shape: Pseudo-Chalkidian neck-amphora
<p>- description body A: 3 amazons on horseback, flying bird
- body B: seated sphinx between 2 lions
- production place: Messina (?)
- painter / group: Group of the Polyphemos-Amphora
- period / date: ripe / late archaic, ca. 530 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 38 cm
- findspot: unknown (from the art market)
- museum / inventory number: Athens, Museum for Cycladic and Archaic Art 779
- bibliography: Lila I. Marangou, Ancient Greek Art. The N. P. Goulandris Collection, Athens 1985, cat. 129
- Mario Iozzo, Ceramica "Calcidese". Nuovi documenti e problemi riproposti, Roma 1994, plates 107-108
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