amphora

Examples of amphora in the following topics:

• Pottery in the Greek Geometric Period

  • Kraters marked male graves, while amphorae marked female graves.
  • Both the Diplyon Krater and Dipylon Amphora demonstrate the main characteristics of painting during this time.
  • On the lip of the krater and on many registers of the amphora, is a decorative meander.
  • The Dipylon Amphora depicts just a prothesis in a wide a register around the pot.
  • Geometric Amphora, from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece, c. 740 BCE.

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • One example is an amphora that depicts Greek warriors Achilles and Ajax playing dice.
  • The Revelers Vase is an amphora that depicts three drunk men dancing.
  • Athenian Black-figure amphora.
  • Red-figure side of a bilingual amphora.
  • Black-figure side of a bilingual amphora.

• Etruscan Ceramics

  • The amphora in the image below depicts imagery consisting of a spiral and a stylized bird, among other designs.
  • They mainly produced amphorae, hydriai and jugs.

• Vase Painting in the Orientalizing Period

  • This detail from Proto-Attic amphora shows the outline- and silhouette-based forms in which the human body was depicted at the time, as well as the orange clay available to Attic ceramicists.

• Neoclassical Sculpture

  • The difference is exemplified in Canova's Hebe (1800-05), whose contrapposto almost mimics lively dance steps as she prepares to pour nectar and ambrosia from a small amphora into a chalice, and Thorvaldsen's Monument to Copernicus (1822-30), whose subject sits upright with the a compass and armillary sphere.

• Stelae in the Greek High Classical Period

  • The stelae of ancient Greece replaced the funerary markers of the geometric kraters and amphorae and Archaic kouroi and korai in the Classical period.

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • Black-figure painting nearly disappeared in the Early Classical period and was primarily reserved for objects made to seem old or recall antique styles, such as victory amphorae for the Panhellenic Games.

• Sculpture in the Greek Archaic Period

  • Most statues were commissioned as memorials and votive offerings or as grave markers, replacing the vast amphora (two-handled, narrow-necked jars used for wine and oils) and kraters (wide-mouthed vessels) of the previous periods, yet still typically painted in vivid colors.