English: object type / vase shape: attic black figure belly-amphora type B

- 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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