About This Artwork

Greek, Attica

Pelike (Storage Jar), c. 500 B.C.

Terracotta, black-figure technique with touches of red and white
Height: 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.); Diameter at 13 cm from base: 25.5 cm (10 in.); Diameter of mouth: 14.8 cm (5 7/8 in.); Diameter of lip: 12.8 cm (5 in.); Diameter of foot: 17 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1889.12