Terracotta amphora (jar) ca. 500-490 B.C. Attributed to the Princeton Painter Obverse, battle scene with quadriga (4-horse chariot)Reverse, departing warriorsBattle scenes like the one on this amphora would have brought to mind Homeric passages such as this:As inhuman fire sweeps on in fury through the deep anglesof a drywood mountain and sets ablaze the depth ofthe timber and the blustering wind lashes the flamealong, so Achilleus swept everywhere with his spearlike something more than a mortal harrying them asthey died, and the black earth ran blood.(Iliad, book 20, lines 490-94).. Terracotta amphora (jar) 254867 : Attributed to the Princeton Painter, Terracotta amphora (jar), ca. 500490 B.C., Terracotta, H. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm) diameter of mouth 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) diameter of foot 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1956 (56.171.9)