BLACK FIGURE CLASSIC AMPHORA CLV05800PH62

Masterpiece handmade ceramic Black-figure Amphora, museum copy, around 500-4000 BC.
Depicts warriors with their horses ,it’s a scene of the Trojan war

The term amphora means an oval vessel with a vertical handle on both sides. It was used to store wine and sometimes oil.

The name amphora comes from the adverb amphi and the verb carry

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.

The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad.

The core of the Iliad (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-long siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments

. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.