Vases Amphora Two-handled jar (amphora) with snakes on handles
Two-handled jar (amphora) with snakes on handles

Two-handled jar (amphora) with snakes on handles

the Birdseed Painter · Amphora · 735–720 B.C.
Neck-handled amphora; plastic snakes on each handle. Snakes have eyes, and bodies decorated with dots and lines; handles have cross-hatched triangles. Below rim, tangential (running) circles, dotted lozen chain, hatched meander. Between handles: band of vertical panels of linear decoration (cross-hatching, hatched meander, checkerboard, Ms), meander and dotted lozenge chain. On shoulder: dots, two panels (one on each side) of four grazing horses, with waterbird under each horse. On body: dotted lozenge chain, hatched meander, dotted lozenge chain, waterbirds facing right, cross-hatched wolftooth, checkerboard, lozenge chain, hatched rays, lines. On small foot: tangential dotted circles.
Shape
Period
Late Geometric IIA Period
Date
735–720 B.C.
Culture
Greek
Dimensions
H: 153.67 cm D: 89.41 cm
Medium
Ceramic
Findspot
Greece, Attica, Athens
Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number
98.894
Image Source
boston_mfa
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)