Group E, Greek, Attic, ca. 540 B.C.
Terracotta, black-figure, 16 1/8 x 11 7/16 in. (40.9 x 29 cm)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., B.A. 1913, Fund
1983.22
The decoration of this black-figure amphora is attributed to Group E, a modern conventional name for an Athenian workshop active between 560 and 540 B.C. Detail was added to the black-figure decorative scheme both by incision and by the application of red and white slips. On one side of the vessel, the painter depicted the birth of Athena, who springs fully clothed and armed, though small in scale, from the head of Zeus, in the company of other gods—from left to right, Dionysos, Apollo, the Eileithyiae (goddesses of childbirth), and Ares. On the other side of the amphora, a chariot drawn by four black horses is shown in frontal view, under the command of a charioteer dressed in white.
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