Rhapsode

Title: Rhapsode
LC Subject: Writing
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 797 Vase E270
Creator: Kleophrades Painter
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Kleophrades Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 505-475 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora (storage-jar), with twisted handles. (a) Victorious poet reciting. On a plinth or bema, on which is inscribed KAΛΟNEI, καλος εΐ, a bearded, wreathed man in an himation which leaves his right shoulder free stands to right, resting his extended right hand on a knotted staff. From his open mouth proceed the first words of a metrical poem. (See Inscription). (b) Flute-player: perhaps the accompanist of the poet in a. He stands on a smaller plinth to right playing on the flutes, which are attached by a phorbeia which has a broad band over the cheeks, to which are fastened two smaller bands by small rings, passing at the back of and over the head. He is wreathed, and has light hair on his cheeks: he wears a long sleeved chiton decorated with a band of pattern above the ankles, which flies back in wavy folds as if he were moving forward, shoes, and a short, fringed tunic of some thick material, decorated with a large chequer pattern. The chequers on the left shoulder are not filled in. Purple inscriptions in field, and wreaths. Brown inscriptions on plinth, hair on cheek, moustache, upper folds of chiton and shading on lower part of chiton in b, and inner markings, including even the muscles on the back of the flute-player's hands. The edge of the hair against the flesh has a row of minute brown dots: in b it has two parallel rows of raised black dots over the forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open and pupil close against it). Below each side, a strip of alternate maeanders with red cross squares and black squares. --The British Museum 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
Inscription: Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Script: Greek Inscription Language: Greek Inscription Content: ΗΟΔΕΠΟΤΕΝΤYPIΝΘI, Ωδε ποτ έv Tύρινθι. Inscription Translation: As once in Tiryns... --The British Museum
View: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 490-480 BCE
Subject: Busts, TCs, Stelar, etc. Other--Greek Authors
Style Period: Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: neck amphorae
Date: -0490/-0480
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_07572
Item Locator: Box 17, Section 23
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: 46.99 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: Attic (culture)
Id Current Repository: 1843,1103.34