Phylax play

Title: Phylax play
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Bell-krater Vase F189
Creator: Python II
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Python II (Greek vase painter, active 4th century BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white, yellow, and purple. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, wave-pattern; below the handles, palmettes. Above, on obverse, two rows of vine-leaves, in which is intertwined a purple sash. (a) Scene from a farce, perhaps a father dragging a drunken youth home from a symposion: A high stage is represented, supported by three Doric columns (the centre one white); from it hang two purple taeniae and four vine-branches; on either side of the scene is a post representing the side-wall. On the stage are two comic actors confronted; the one on the right has a mask with short stiff white hair, beard and moustache, jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece, over which is a short white chiton with yellow stripes and purple border, embroidered chlamys round body and left arm, purple phallos and padded stomach, in left hand a hooked stick; he moves away to right, looking back, and with right hand grasps the other's left wrist. The latter has a mask with black hair and beard, wreath, lantern in right hand, phiale and purple taenia with yellow spots in left; he is attired as the first; behind him is a swan to right, pecking the ground. (b) Two ephebi confronted; the one on the left has long curly hair, wreath, long chiton, himation with dotted border, sandals, and staff in left hand. The other wears a fillet, and himation as the first; in right hand he holds out a taenia and a white fruit or ball, in left hand is a staff. Between them hangs a taenia. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926
View: Front
Coverage: Paestum, Campania, Italy (creation) Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: 360-320 BCE
Subject: Pottery VI--Italian Python
Style Period: Red-figure Paestan (pottery style)
Work Type: bell kraters
Date: -0360/-0320
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_06670
Item Locator: Box 15, Section 12
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: 40.64 cm Diameter: 39.37 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
Id Current Repository: 1873,0820.347