Athena
- Title
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Athena
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Neck-amphora
Old Catalogue 795
Vase E268
- Creator
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Berlin Painter
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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attributed to Berlin Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 460 BCE)
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Hermes, bearded, wreathed, with hair in long single tresses, short sleeved chiton, chlamys, petasos at back, endromides of skin (surface covered with minute dots) with crescent-form flaps, moves to right looking back, extending to right his left hand, holding caduceus, with index finger extended, apparently beckoning. (b) Athene in long sleeved chiton, mantle fastened on left shoulder and hanging in pteryges, aegis with fringe of spiral snakes on lower edge, and dotted surface, bracelets, her hair hanging loose with a fillet wound twice round it, holding spear across her body in left, and extending a high crested helmet held by cheek-piece in right, moves to left, looking back; her left foot in foreshortening, her body en face. The aegis is short in front, but at the back hangs down below the waist. Late stage of large severe style. Purple wreath, cord of petasos, and bracelets. Brown inner details, upper folds of chiton, necklace, and hair over forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open). Below each side, a strip of pattern, pairs of maeanders set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares. At lower insertion of handles, egg pattern. --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
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Front
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
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ca. 480 BCE
- Subject
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Berlin Painter
Pottery IV Black Figure, Red Figure
- Style Period
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Red-figure
Attic (culture)
- Work Type
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neck amphorae
- Date
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-0485/-0475
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_05962
- Item Locator
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Box 13, Section 17
- 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: 60.96 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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1837,0609.28