Left: bell krater, 430-420 BCE

Title
Left: bell krater, 430-420 BCE
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Right: Hydria, 440-430 BCE Bell krater, Old Catalogue 1290, Vase E500 (left) Hydria, Vase E223 (right)
Creator
Pisticci Painter
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
attributed to Pisticci Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 440-ca. 410 BCE)
Description
On left is a Bell krater, Old Catalogue 1290, Vase E500, measuring at 31 cm in height, 32.8 cm in diameter, and 2.2 kg in weight. The vase was created in Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1849,0518.12. Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Eos pursuing Kephalos. Eos, with long chiton, a mantle, and a broad fillet, runs to right, laying her right on the shoulder of Kephalos, a youth in a heavy mantle, who flees, looking back. On the left a similar youth, with a fillet, moves away to left, looking back. (b) A draped ephebos to left, his head uncovered, between two more draped ephebi, confronted, staff in hand. Late stage of good period. –The British Museum; On right is a Hydria, Vase E223, measuring at 34 cm in height, 29.2 cm in width, and 2 kg in weight. The vase was created in Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy, discovered at Nola, Campania, Italy and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1128. Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar). Three women at toilet (?). In the centre a woman in a saccos moves to right, holding out both hands towards one confronting her, who holds in both hands a taenia; between them is a calathos. On left a woman wearing an himation stands en face, but looking to right and holding up in her right a mirror. All three wear sleeved chiton: the two side figures have their hair looped up with a radiated stephane. Over the central figure is inscribed, AYTOΠΣΙA, Αυτοψία. Purple inscription. Brown markings of calathos. Eye in profile. Design curves over shoulder. Below, sets of three inlanders separated by red cross squares: above, a strip of laurel wreath. –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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Coverage
Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy (creation) Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
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 hydriae
Date
-0440/-0420
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_06684
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: 31 cm, Diameter: 32.8 cm, Weight: 2.2 kg; Height: 34 cm, Width: 29.2 cm, Weight: 2 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
1849,0518.12; 1867,0508.1128
Oregon State University Libraries University of Oregon Libraries