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| Keywords: Greek - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 4820 - View A.jpg The central figures on one side of this vase are a seated man holding a staff who faces an armed woman-indicated by the white skin-leading a horse They could be Priam the king of Troy described in the Iliad receiving Penthesilea an Amazon queen She fought against the Greeks in the Trojan War and was killed by Achilles The other side of the vessel shows a charioteer in the process of turning his chariot around while two foot soldiers on either side flee from the rearing horses between 550 500 BC terracotta cm 26 2 17 accession number 48 20 23904 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Quadriga Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
