object type / vase shape: attic black figure tyrrhenian neck-amphora
<p>- description neck A: 2 confronted sphinxes
- neck B: panther and ram
- shoulder A: 6 hoplites (in 2 groups) fighting; imitation letters
- shoulder B: 2 hoplites duelling between 2 riders
- belly A and B: 2 animal friezes (Iris with kerykeion in the centre of the first frieze)
- production place: Athens
- painter: Fallow Deer Painter
- period / date: high / ripe archaic, ca. 550-540 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 34 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1429 (J 127)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 100.76, Para 38
- CVA München 7, plates 324.1-2
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 310075
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