Youths and Eros playing knuckebone

Title: Youths and Eros playing knuckebone
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Bell krater Vase E501
Creator: Amykos Painter
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Amykos Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 430-ca. 400 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Eros playing astragali (knucklebones). On the right Eros, closely draped in a mantle, with wings raised, is seated to left on a square base jesting on a plinth; he stoops forward, supporting on the back of his right hand a number of astragali; a heap of others lie on the ground beside it. In the centre stands a nude ephebos (Ganymedes) leaning on a staff, who places with his right a circlet on the head of Eros. On the left a second ephebos, closely draped in a mantle, stands looking on, resting his left on a staff. (b) A draped ephebos to left, his head uncovered, between two more draped ephebi, confronted, staff in hand. --The British Museum Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
View: Front
Coverage: Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy (creation) Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 420-400 BCE
Subject: Amykos Painter Pottery VI--Italian
Style Period: Red-figure Lucanian (pottery style)
Work Type: bell kraters
Date: -0420/-0400
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_06700
Item Locator: Box 15, 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: 31 cm Diameter: 31.5 cm Weight: 2.1 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: 1856,1226.8