Amasis and OlHSN

Title: Amasis and OlHSN
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Amphora Old Catalogue 554 Vase B209
Creator: Exekias
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Exekias (Ancient Greek vase painter, active 540-520 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured amphora. On the neck, double honeysuckle. Under the handles, patterns of palmettes and spirals; below, maeander and lotus-buds. (a) In the centre Memnon to right, bearded and fully armed; on his helmet the figure of a dog, the tail supporting the crest; he has long curls ending in spirals, a white cuirass, probably of linen, richly ornamented, short striped chiton, shield and spear. On either side facing him is an beardless African attendant; the one on the right has a short striped chiton and a pelta, on which is a pellet; the other has a cuirass and short diapered chiton; each has a club in right hand. Above Memnon behind is inscribed έπ]οίησ(ε)ν (?); in front: AMAΣIΣ, Αμασις. (b) Achilles slaying Penthesilea: Achilles to right, fully armed, bearded, with hair as Memnon's in (a), short striped chiton, sword, and Boeotian shield, is thrusting with spear at Penthesilea, who retreats to right. She has long tresses, high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces, and meander border on crest, cuirass, and short striped chiton, and defends herself with spear and shield with device of an ivy-wreath. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
View: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal: ca. 540-530 BCE
Subject: Black Figure Exekias Pottery III
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: amphorae (storage vessels)
Date: -0540/-0530
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_05442
Item Locator: Box 12, Section 13
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name: Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: Height: 41.5 cm Width: 30 cm Weight: 3.6 kg
Material: pottery | painted; incised
Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution: University of Oregon
Cultural Context: Attic (culture) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
Id Current Repository: 1849,0518.10