3-047-586 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Fragmentary Attic Black-Figure Hydria, about 530 BC. Additional Info: Reassembled from several fragments; most of the front of the body and part of the neck survive. The shoulder is decorated with a pair of fighting warriors flanked on the right by two horsemen and on the left by a single horseman. In each case the horses are represented frontally, their heads in profile. The dueling warriors both have hoplite shields, greaves and Corinthian helmets. The warrior on the left wears an animal skin. The body is decorated with a quadriga in profile to the right. The charioteer is bearded, and bears a Boeotian shield (animal head blazon) on his back. He wears a round cap on his head, and is armed with a sword. The neck is black, with a band of red and black tongues above the shoulder. Framing the decorative scenes, two bands of horizontal addorsed lotus and palmette. Under the scene on the body, two red bands. Undecorated within.