Athena

Title: Athena
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 795 Vase E268
Creator: Berlin Painter
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Berlin Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 460 BCE)
Description: 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: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 480 BCE
Subject: Berlin Painter Pottery IV Black Figure, Red Figure
Style Period: Red-figure Attic (culture)
Work Type: neck amphorae
Date: -0485/-0475
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_05962
Item Locator: Box 13, 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: 60.96 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: 1837,0609.28