object type / vase shape: attic black figure belly-amphora type B
<p>- description A: Menelaos recovering Helena (during the sack of Troy), hoplite, between 2 youths
- B: Dionysos with ivy and kantharos between 4 naked youths, one with oinochoe, one with wineskin
- production place: Athens
- painter: Amasis Painter
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 550-540 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1383 (J 75)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 150.7
- Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and his world, Malibu 1985, cat. 14
- John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 90
- Klaus Vierneisel,  Bert Kaeser, Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens, München 1990, fig. 27.3, 56.15
- CVA München 1, plates 21.1, 22.1-2, 23.1-6
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 310434
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