File:Amphora Dionysos satyrs BM GR1980,1029.1.jpg

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Artist
Andokides (potter, signed), Psiax (painter, attr.)
Object type neck amphora
object_type QS:P31,Q11086465
Description
Neck side A: Dionysos with drinking horn and ivy between satyrs dancing. Neck side B: warrior in frontal chariot between youths. Made in Athens about 520 - 500 BC. Attributed to the painter Psiax, and signed on the rim by Andokides. British Museum, London.
Date between circa 530 and circa 520 BC
Medium black-figure pottery
Dimensions height: 39.5 cm (15.5 in); diameter: 27.9 cm (10.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,39.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,27.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Accession number
GR 1980,1029.1
Place of creation Athens
Object history

Place of discovery: Vulci, Viterbo.

1980: purchased by The British Museum from Christie's. Previous owner: Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Northampton (1790 - 1851).
Inscriptions

Signature: on the reserved top of the mouth on side A in black glaze:

Ανδοκιδες εποιε [Andokides made (it)] (AVI 4749)
References
British Museum: online database: entry 399314
The Beazley Archive. 302217, London, Market, Christie's, 1980.11-29.1. Retrieved on 25 June 2012.
Source/Photographer originally posted to Flickr as Black-Figured Amphora (jar) with Dionysos and Two Satyrs by Claire H. 22 June 2008
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