It is held by the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon with the inventory number E 581-c and is attributed to the London B76 Painter, who was active at Athens in the second quarter of the sixth century BC.

The amphora is a piece of black-figure pottery, deriving from the region of Attica, which is located in Mainland Greece to the south of Boeotia, with Athens as its capital.

The work is now stored in the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon under the inventory number E 581-c, in the department of antiquities.

On face A there are three Greek goddesses: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite dressed in himations, the traditional women's overgarment.

On face B there is a battle between two armoured hoplites, wielding spears, their legs protected by greaves, their heads by Corinthian helmets, their bodies by aspides (round shields, secured to the forearm by a central strap and moved with a handle.)

They are terracotta vases of variable size with two vertical handles, by which they are carried on both sides, designed for the transport and storage of liquids (principally olive oil and wine).

Attic pottery was valued in the sanctuaries of the Etruscans, where they had additional roles: cultic ritual, banqueting and votive offerings.

To create this form of pottery, the vases were moulded on the potter's wheel, then dried in the open air and painted after a few hours.

Then the layer of dried slip was scratched with a needle in order to create details (facial features, hair, musculature).

Finally the vase was fired in three phases: In the archaic period, amphorae display the veneration of gods and heroes in their representation of myths.

She usually appears wearing her serpent-hemmed aegis and a helmet, as in an Attic Black figure hydria found at Vulci which was produced around 540 BC.