An Attic Black-figured Belly Amphora, circa 520-510 B.C.

painted on one side with four warriors in full armor facing left, each with a spear, and holding shields emblazoned with swan, ivy-leaf wreath, cock, and multiple boss devices, the other side decorated with three similar warriors holding shields with human leg, swan, and equine hindquarter devices, linked lotus buds above the scene, rays above the foot, the details in added red and white.

Ars Antiqua, Lucerne
Sotheby's, London, July 9th, 1973, no. 168, illus.
Sotheby's, London, July 14th, 1975, no. 214, illus.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 3498

Very good, intact, areas of losses to black glaze around foot, on one side of body, on handles, and on one side of neck
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For a related amphora by the same painter, see Sotheby's, London, December 11th, 1989, no. 127 (attributed to the manner of the Antimenes Painter).