ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 520 B.C.

Departure scenes were a favorite subject for the Swing Painter and should be interpreted as connected to the Iliad (see for example the amphora in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 76 in E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler). The gesture of the woman caressing the face of the warrior in the chariot is unusual.

The wrestling scene depicted on the shoulder of this fragment is far less common for the painter; only three examples are known. On his Panathenaic amphora in the Getty Villa, he similarly has a dinos between the grappling pair, presumably the prize (see no. 21 in A.J. Clark, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Fascicule 1).