Eros and Youth

Title
Eros and Youth
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Bell krater Vase F39
Creator
Pisticci Painter
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
attributed to Pisticci Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 440-ca. 410 BCE)
Description
Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with inner markings faintly traced in red. Above the designs, laurel-wreaths; below each, a band of maeander and crosses. (a) Zephyros pursuing Hyakinthos (?) or Eros and youth (?): Zephyros/Eros to right, nude, beardless, and winged, with hands extended, pursues Hyakinthos/youth, who is beardless, with fillet and chlamys over left arm, and moves away to right, looking back. (b) Two ephebi confronted, in himatia, with mouths open, as if conversing; the one on the left has a staff; between them hangs a pair of halteres. --The British Museum Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; 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
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Front
Coverage
Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy (creation)
Temporal
ca. 440-420 BCE
Subject
Pisticci Painter, Cyclops Painter, Dolon Painter Pottery VI--Italian
Style Period
Red-figure Lucanian (pottery style)
Work Type
bell kraters
Date
-0440/-0420
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_06685
Item Locator
Box 15, Section 13
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: 23.7 cm Diameter: 25.2 cm Weight: 1.396 kg
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
Id Current Repository
1824,0501.38
Oregon State University Libraries University of Oregon Libraries