RECALLS THE ALTENBURG CLASS, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

On the body of this high-handled oinochoe is Athena mounting a quadriga pulled by a team of black and white horses.  The goddess wears a peplos and her snaky aegis and is armed in a high crested helmet and spear.  Astride the horses stands Dionysos, a crown of ivy in his hair, holding a rhyton and vines which fill the field.  At the right stands Hermes, largely obscured by the horse.  This oinochoe was considered by Clarke (op. cit.) to be related to the Altenburg Class, a category of late black-figured oinochoe grouped together by Beazley because of the similarity of their shape, and named after the city where one of the examples is located (see Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, pp. 422-423).