Introduction
The pointed amphora by the Achilles Painter held at the BnF, the latest and the largest Attic red-figured pointed amphora known to date, and one of only two to have kept their original stand, is the only recorded specimen of this shape by the artist, who was active in Athens from ca. 460 to ca. 425 BC. Its decoration, which depicts a spirited procession of eight maenads and two satyrs led by Dionysus, makes it one of the Achilles Painter’s undisputed masterpieces (fig. 1 a-b).
Fig. 1 a-b. The pointed amphora by the Achilles Painter, Paris, BnF, département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques (MMA), (De Ridder.357)
General visible-light view before treatment; a. Side A; b. Side B.
© C2RMF/A. Maigret.
Found in Vulci, the vase was first introduced during the 1847 solemn session of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica as a “magnifica anfora puntuta”: clearly, it had already been restored when the renowned French collector Honoré d’Albert, 8t...
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