File:Chalkidian Neck Amphora by the Inscription Painter Getty Museum.jpg

PrimaryTitle Chalkidian Black-Figure Neck Amphora MakerName Attributed to the Inscription Painter [Greek, active 570 - 530 B.C.] Type Vessels Medium Terracotta Place Place Created: Rhegion, South Italy, Europe Date about 540 B.C. Source J. Paul Getty Museum ObjectNumber 96.AE.1 ObjectName Amphora Decorative Objects and Vases / Bottles and Pots / Amphorai / Neck Amphorai AlternateTitle Storage Jar with Diomedes and Odysseus (Display Title) Chalcidian black-figured neck amphora (Display Title) Storage Jar with Diomedes and Odysseus (GettyGuide Title) Department Antiquities Dimensions Object: H: 39.6 cm (15 9/16 in.) Object (body): Diam.: 24.9 cm (9 13/16 in.) Object (mouth, outside): Diam.: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.) Culture Greek AlternateNumber L.88.AE.56 (Previous number) (ALR number) Inscriptions Inscribed on side A, in Greek, "Diomedes," (retrograde) and "Rhesos" (retrograde). Inscribed on side B, in Greek, "Odysseus". Topic How We Live / War / Battles Mythology / Heroes / Diomedes Mythology / Heroes / Odysseus Mythology / Mortals / Rhesos Natural World / Horses imageThumbURI http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/images/thumb/01520401-T.JPG