Revellers Vase

One side of the amphora: three bearded men dance.
The other side: Hector dons his armor as his parents Priam and Hecuba watch.

The Revellers Vase is a Greek vase originating from the Archaic period. Painted around 510 BCE in the red-figure pottery style, the vase was found in an Etruscan tomb in Vulci, Italy. The painting is attributed to Euthymides. The vase is an amphora (a type of vessel normally used for storage), painted with two scenes: one depicts three nude partygoers, and the other the Trojan hero Hector arming for battle.

The work represents an early use of foreshortening and three-quarter views of figures in Greek vase-painting, breaking with earlier conventions of employing profile and frontal views. It was excavated in 1829 by Lucien Bonaparte from the Etruscan Tomb of the Cuccumella at Vulci in Italy, and is currently held in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Münich, Germany.

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