Polyphemus
- Title
- Polyphemus
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Calyx-krater
- Creator
- Cyclops Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Cyclops Painter (Greek vase painter, active late 5th century BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) showing four draped youths. On the other side is a scene of Odysseus and his companions preparing to blind the Cyclops. Two satyrs appear on the right, suggesting that the scene was inspired by Euripides' satyr play Cyclops. --The British Museum Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- ca. 420-410 BCE
- Subject
- 1st century BCE Book 9 Odyssey I Polyphemos group from Ephesus
- Style Period
- Red-figure Lucanian (pottery style)
- Work Type
- calyx kraters
- Date
- -0420/-0410
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_02032
- Item Locator
- Box 5, Section 6
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Diameter: 46 cm Height: 46 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
- 1947,0714.18
