Odysseus under ram
- Title
- Odysseus under ram
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lip-cup Vase B407
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Archaic Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- Attic Black Figure pottery lip cup with added plaster and one handle restored; interior: reserved band around top of rim and glazed black below; reserved tondo with small black central circle (marked with small pits, which were part of ancient repair); exterior: narrow black band around rim and below offset of lip; handle black, reserved on inside; on lip between handles (sides A and B), black figure decoration consisting of Odysseus (added red hair and beard; head, neck, shoulder, buttocks with incised arc, legs from below knee and feet protruding) bound by two cords under ram (faded added white horn, red neck, and red mark on haunch), to left; lower part of bowl glazed black with reserved band; stem and foot glazed black; concave edge and underside of foot reserved; several ancient repair holes (3 on lowest part of bowl, 1 through centre of tondo, 4 at top of stem). --The British Museum Villing, Alexandra, Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, London, BM, 2012; 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; Möller, Astrid, Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000; Venit, M.S., Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC, PhD New York University, UMI, 1982
- View
- Side
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Naucratis, Egypt (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 530-520 BCE
- Subject
- Book 9 Escape from Polyphemos Odyssey I
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lip cups
- Date
- -0530/-0520
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_02119
- Item Locator
- Box 5, 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: 15.2 cm Diameter: 22.2 cm
- Material
- pottery | slipped; painted; incised
- 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) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1886,0401.1290
