Persephone leaving Hades

Title: Persephone leaving Hades
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 550 Vase B261
Creator: Leagros Group
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Leagros Group (Ancient Greek vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora . (a) Return of Persephone from Hades: On the left is Pluto seated to right, partly bald, with white beard and long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and himation, sceptre in left hand. Before him is Hermes (as Psychagogos) to left, looking back at him; he is bearded, with hair looped up under a fillet, short chiton and chlamys, both embroidered, petasos and endromides, right hand pointing upwards. In advance of him is Persephone to right, looking back, with long tresses, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in left hand three ears of corn. The locality is indicated by Sisyphos who is bearded, with petasos and chlamys over left shoulder; he rolls the stone to right up a steep incline, holding it with both hands, and raising left knee to assist its progress. (b) Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with long tresses, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, playing with a plectrum on the chelys, from which hangs drapery; by his side is a hind to right. Facing him are two female figures (Nymphs ?), with long hair, fillets, long chitons and himatia, both embroidered, and right hands extended. Behind him are two similar figures to right, with left hands raised. In the field, branches. The greater part of the design is restored. --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 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
View: Front
Temporal: 510-500 BCE
Subject: Leagros Group Pottery IV Black Figure, Red Figure
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: neck amphorae
Date: -0510/-0500
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_05876
Item Locator: Box 13, Section 14
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: 44.45 cm
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)
Id Current Repository: 1848,0619.3