Warrior
- Title
- Warrior
- Repository
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Alternative
- Attic White-Ground Lekythos Oil Jar with Warriors Arming Oil Jar with a Young Man Arming
- Creator
- Douris
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Douris (Greek vase painter and potter, active ca. 500-475 BCE)
- Description
- On this Athenian white-ground lekythos attributed to Douris, two young warriors put on their armor, assisted by a woman and a young boy. The main lines of the bodies and clothing are drawn in black glaze, and the rest of the drawing is rendered with a brownish line made from diluted glaze. The words written between the figures are kalos inscriptions, praising Athenian youths. Large, white-ground lekythoi with outline drawing like this one are unusual in the early 400s B.C., yet three such lekythoi can be attributed to Douris. In the late 500s B.C., Athenian potters began to paint over the natural reddish color of their pottery with a highly purified clay that turned white when fired. Initially artists applied this technique to a variety of shapes. However, because the white slip was rather fragile, by the mid- 400s B.C. artists limited the use of this technique to leykthoi used in funerary ritual. --J. Paul Getty Museum
- Inscription
- Inscription: Translated from Greek: "The boy" / "Panaitios is beautiful" / "Beautiful" / "Nikodromos is beautiful". One more fragmentary Greek inscription. --J. Paul Getty Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
- 500-490 BCE
- Subject
- Pottery V Red Figure Red Figure, White, Animal White Ground Lekythoi
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0500/-0490
- View Date
- 1985-09
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06376
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 17
- 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: 33.5 cm; Diameter (shoulders): 12.6 cm
- Material
- terracotta
- 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)
- Id Current Repository
- 84.AE.770
