Visitors at Tomb

Title: Visitors at Tomb
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Volute krater Old Catalogue 1422 Vase F283
Creator: Pittore dell'Ilioupersis
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Iliupersis Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 375-ca. 350 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red, white and yellow, on black ground. Holes are pierced in the tops of the handles. Round the lip, each side, egg-moulding; underneath, wave-pattern. On the neck, (a) above, ivy-wreath; below, two lions confronted, each with one paw raised; (b) ivy-wreath and palmettes. Above the design in front, tongue- and egg-patterns; below, all round, maeander and crosses; below the handles, palmettes. The handles terminate below in swans' heads, as before. On the obverse of the medallions are bas-relief groups of a Satyr and a Maenad, in red and white; the Satyr wears a panther's skin, and is dancing to left, playing the double flute and looking back at the Maenad, who is seated to left, and has yellow hair in a knot, long white chiton, and red himation round lower limbs, in left hand a thyrsos, with right she draws forward her drapery; in the background is a tree. (a) Offerings at heroon: The heroon is Ionic distyle, painted white, with anthemia on the pediment and two phialae above; on the base, a band of triglyphs, white on black, and white metopes; beams of interior roof shown in wrong perspective. In it is a figure of a youth (painted white), with face to front, chlamys on left arm, and staff in right hand; he looks down and dips left hand into a large white laver on a fluted stand (hypostaton); inside the heroon hang three phialae. On the left is a youth leaning forward, with left foot raised on a rock and drapery over left arm, about to place a wreath on the base of the heroon. Above him are a youth and a female figure seated side by side to left and conversing, turning to look at each other; the youth has drapery over his lower limbs, and holds up a phiale containing fruit in right hand. His left hand is laid in the lap of the female figure, whose right hand is raised as if speaking; she is seated on a cista ornamented with maeander and lozenge patterns, and has hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with stripe down the side and apoptygma fastened on the shoulders. On the right is a female figure stooping forward to left, and placing on the heroon a large basket ornamented with maeander, wave, and other patterns; she has long curls, and wears radiated ampyx, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and sandals. Above her is a youth seated on a stool to right, looking back, with drapery round left arm and under him, wand in right hand, and pilos held up in left. Below the youths the ground is indicated by lines of dots. (b) Offerings at stele: The stele is a lofty Doric column on three steps, with a white taenia tied round it; on the steps are five taeniae and fruit. On the left is a female figure holding out a wreath to the stele in left hand; her hair is gathered in a knot, and she wears opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with stripe down front, and sandals; with right hand she draws forward her drapery. Above is a youth seated to right, with fillet, and drapery under him, holding out an embroidered taenia in both hands. On the right is a youth seated on raised ground to right, wearing fillet, and bordered himation over lower limbs; in right hand a wand, in left he holds out a phiale with fruit. Facing him, on a higher level, is a female figure holding up a fan in right hand and a pyxis in left; her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton with stripe down side, and sandals. Below on the right are several loose stones; ground-lines indicated by white dots. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
View: Front
Coverage: Apulia, Italy (creation)
Temporal: ca. 370-350 BCE
Subject: Iliupersis Painter Pottery VI--Italian
Style Period: Red-figure Apulian (pottery style)
Work Type: volute kraters
Date: -0370/-0350
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_06744
Item Locator: Box 15, Section 18
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: 68.58 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: Apulian (culture or style)
Id Current Repository: 1849,0518.4