Flute Player
- Title
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Flute Player
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Neck-amphora
Old Catalogue 797
Vase E270
- Creator
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Kleophrades Painter
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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attributed to Kleophrades Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 505-475 BCE)
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora (storage-jar), with twisted handles. (a) Victorious poet reciting. On a plinth or bema, on which is inscribed KAΛΟNEI, καλος εΐ, a bearded, wreathed man in an himation which leaves his right shoulder free stands to right, resting his extended right hand on a knotted staff. From his open mouth proceed the first words of a metrical poem. (See Inscription). (b) Flute-player: perhaps the accompanist of the poet in a. He stands on a smaller plinth to right playing on the flutes, which are attached by a phorbeia which has a broad band over the cheeks, to which are fastened two smaller bands by small rings, passing at the back of and over the head. He is wreathed, and has light hair on his cheeks: he wears a long sleeved chiton decorated with a band of pattern above the ankles, which flies back in wavy folds as if he were moving forward, shoes, and a short, fringed tunic of some thick material, decorated with a large chequer pattern. The chequers on the left shoulder are not filled in. Purple inscriptions in field, and wreaths. Brown inscriptions on plinth, hair on cheek, moustache, upper folds of chiton and shading on lower part of chiton in b, and inner markings, including even the muscles on the back of the flute-player's hands. The edge of the hair against the flesh has a row of minute brown dots: in b it has two parallel rows of raised black dots over the forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open and pupil close against it). Below each side, a strip of alternate maeanders with red cross squares and black 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
- Inscription
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Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Script: Greek Inscription Language: Greek Inscription Content: ΗΟΔΕΠΟΤΕΝΤYPIΝΘI, Ωδε ποτ έv Tύρινθι. Inscription Translation: As once in Tiryns... --The British Museum
- View
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Reverse
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
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ca. 490-480 BCE
- Subject
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Kleophrades Painter
Pottery IV Black Figure, Red Figure
- Style Period
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Red-figure
Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
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neck amphorae
- Date
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-0490/-0480
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_05910
- Item Locator
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Box 13, Section 11
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 46.99 cm
- Material
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pottery | painted
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
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1843,1103.34