Music lesson

Title: Music lesson
LC Subject: Writing
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Hydria Vase E172
Creator: Pig Painter
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Pig Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 475-450 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured hydria. On shoulder: Music lesson. In centre, a group of wreathed, bearded man (instructor) seated on chair to right playing chelys, confronted by boy seated on diphros playing chelys; each chelys has a taenia attached. Beneath the chair a dog lies to left looking round, wearing a collar. On right an ephebos moves away, looking back, holding out in right a spotted sybene and glottocomeion. On extreme right an ephebos sits to left in a chair, closely muffled in himation, his left foot raised in air beneath the chair; above, KAΛΟΣ, καλός. Behind the instructor a wreathed youth stands to right holding a chelys. On left a bearded man (a paidagogos?) stands to left with right resting on a stele, but turns to right, holding up in left a cord attached to the collar of a young panther (?). The stele is decorated at the upper edge with a row of upright strokes, and has written on it, letters horizontal but in a column (kionedon), KAΛΟΣ, καλός. All the figures are wreathed, excepting the youth on the diphros and the paidagogos, who wear fillets: all are draped in himation. Beside the instructor on the right hang a pair of tablets wound round with a cord. Purple wreaths, fillets, cords, and inscriptions (except that on stele). Light brown hair of youth playing lyre, collars of dog and cat. Eye in transition type, disc against open angle. Borders of panel: below, red strip; above, linked lotus buds; on each side, net pattern. Below scene, a broad strip of linked lotus buds, joining handles. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
View: Top
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Fillekura cemetery, Kámiros, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
Temporal: 480-470 BCE
Subject: Busts, TCs, Stelar, etc. Linear B, Dipylon Jug, Hymn Apollo, Rosetta Stone
Style Period: Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: hydriae
Date: -0480/-0470
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_07634
Item Locator: Box 17, Section 25
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name: Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: Width: 300 mm Depth: 250 mm Weight: 176 g Height: 27.94 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: 1864,1007.85