The distinct shape and style of the nolan amphora is thought to have emerged from two styles of older attic black figure pottery.
Attic red figure nolan amphora.
The obverse with a woman seated on a stool facing a draped youth leaning on staff with pseudo inscription between them.
Croesus king of lydia who was defeated in 547 bc by cyrus mounts his pyre but a miraculous rain sent by apollo saves him from the flames.
Both sides with a band of meander below the scenes.
An attic red figured nolan amphora attributed to the alkimachos painter circa 470 460 b c.
An attic red figured nolan amphora manner of the painter of london e342 circa 475 425 b c.
The nolan type from nola italy was the most popular style of amphora in the red figure period.
13 in 33 7cm.
On the main side the painter has represented a historical fact related by the authors of antiquity.
500 450 bc by the ethiop painter depicting robed man with walking stick maeander pattern below and the upper part of warrior on reverse.
Myson a red figure painter known by his signature as a potter and painter has decorated this amphora with a scene that is unique in attic pottery.
It has been theorized that the former is the closest predecessor of the nolan shape given that it has both the elongated neck of the red bodied amphora and the smaller size associated with nolan amphorae.
The black figure panel amphora and the red bodied amphora.
Attic red figure nolan amphora.
The item seized was an attic red figure nolan amphora painted by the harrow painter a vase painter known to have decorated column craters oinochoai and neck amphorae from approximately 480 until 460 b c e.
Paul getty museum los angeles california attic red figure nolan amphora getty museum.
An attic red figure nolan amphora c.