An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora, circa late 6th Century B.C.

with disk foot, triple handles (one restored), and echinus mouth, side A painted with two warriors charging in a quadriga to right, a fallen warrior beneath the horses' hooves, one warrior bearded and wearing a helmet with high crest, the other warrior wearing a Corinthian helmet, side B painted with Ajax carrying the body of Achilles, flanked by two draped women, bands of linked lotus buds and rays below the scenes, double palmettes on the neck, details in added white and red, a graffito under the foot; accession no. 19.1, old inventory no. 192.

Colonel H. B. Wilson
Clapp & Graham, New York
Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928), Minneapolis, Minnesota, acquired from the above on May 3, 1919
The T.B. Walker Foundation (founded 1925), Minneapolis, inv. no. WF6
on loan from the above to the Walker Art Gallery, subsequently the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, acc. no. 19.1, old inv. no. 192
on loan from both of the above to the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, inv. no. L1972.1.6
on loan from the T.B. Walker Foundation and the Walker Art Center to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

"Greek Vases," University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 9th-March 31st, 1981
"Cabinet of Curiosities," University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 24th-May 27th, 2001

Archaeology, 1979, p. 61, illus.
Michael Anderson, Greek Vases, exhibition catalogue, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981, p. 10, no. 6

Well repaired from several mostly larger fragments, the repair lines quite difficult to see. One handle is modern. There is some in-painting along the break lines, where a few small areas are missing. The most damage is to the head of the horse on the right, and there seems to be some in-painting between the head of that horse and the one next to it. The red line at juncture of shoulder and neck is possibly repainted on one side, and appears worn on the other. Much of the added white and red is worn. Some small in-painted chips on the rim, minor abrasions to the glaze on the edge of the foot. There are numbered labels and ink and pencil numbers underneath, along with the ancient graffito. For the most part the painted scenes are in good shape.
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