Revellers Vase

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

The Revellers Vase is a Greek vase originating from the Archaic period. It was made around 510 BCE in the red-figure pottery style and 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. It is an example of the work of the Pioneer Group, which employed the red-figure style with an interest in human anatomy and the use of dynamic, space-filling poses.

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 includes an inscription, "As never Euphronios" (ὡς οὐδέποτε Εὐφρόνιος; hos oudepote Euphronios), written by the painter: this is generally taken as a taunt directed at Euthymides's contemporary painter, Euphronios. The vase was excavated in 1829 by Lucien Bonaparte from the Tomb of the Cuccumella, an Etruscan tomb in Vulci, Italy, and is currently held in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich, Germany.

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