An Attic Black-figured Belly Amphora, attributed to the Manner of the Lysippides Painter, circa 520-510 B.C.

decorated in front with Athena flanked by two fighting warriors in full armor, Odysseus holding a Boeotian shield and Diomedes a shield emblazoned with a ship's prow, inscriptions in the field identifying the figures, the reverse painted with a standing figure of ivy-wreathed Dionysos holding a kantharos before a maenad and flanked by two dancing satyrs, linked lotus buds above each scene, rays above the foot, the details in added red and white.

acquired in Switzerland in 1976

General very good and as shown; note scratches, abrasions, small chips, and small areas of paint loss. Black glaze very thin or misfired below one handle
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For an amphora decorated with the same combat scene see K. Deppert, Attische Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts in Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main, 1970, pl. 10A.