Symposium
- Title
- Symposium
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Stamnos Old Catalogue 740 Vase E453
- Creator
- Peleus Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Peleus Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-420 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured stamnos. (a) Symposion with Cottabos (wine-throwing game). The two figures on the right are as in the following vase, but wear ivy-wreaths; and the ephebos holds in his left a kylix, and has his lips parted as if singing. Above him, ΚΑΛΟΣ. The third figure is a youth, also wreathed with ivy, who holds in his right, by one handle, a footless kylix, and turns to right to look at his companions; the left arm of this figure is drawn in bold foreshortening. Between him and the central figure the flute-player stands to right: her hair is looped up behind with a broad fillet, and she wears cross-straps (stethodesma) across her breasts. Above her head, ΚΑΛΕ. In front of each couch is a table, on which is a row of small purple dots, from which a vine-branch hangs down in front. On the left hangs a chelys. (b) Three draped ephebi. The central one stands en face, and looks to right at another, who places his right upon his shoulder. The one on left rests his right on a staff. Purple stem and berries of ivy wreath, inscriptions, fillets, tuning-pegs of lyre, and vine on tables. The lower band of ornament has red cross squares. --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 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
- View
- Front
- Temporal
- ca. 450-440 BCE
- Subject
- Other named painters Pottery V Red Figure Symposium Red Figure, White, Animal
- Style Period
- Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- stamnoi
- Date
- -0450/-0440
- View Date
- 1985-09
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06270
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 9
- 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: 39.37 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- 1843,1103.99
