About an Amasis Painter´s amphora kept in the Cabinet des Médailles of France´s National Library in Paris: three Archaic Athens´great deities.

Abstract

The iconographic ensemble of an Attic black-figured amphora dated c. 540, signed by Amasis the potter and attributed to the Amasis Painter (Cabinet des Médailles de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris) is re-examined. The goal of this paper is to give the opportunity of evaluating the importance of the iconographic programme used in the production of vases as a way of understanding the archaic City’s social and religious life.

Keywords:
Archaic Athens; cultual life; Athenian Kerameikos; craftman.