Circe

Title
Circe
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Skyphos
Creator
unknown
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
unknown Boeotian (vase painter)
Description
Pottery: black-figured skyphos decorated with the loom of Circe, who is shown with Odysseus and one of his sailors, changed to an animal. Inscribed `KIRKA'. --The British Museum Bate, Jonathan; Thornton, Dora, Shakespeare: Staging the World, London, BMP, 2012
View
Front; Detail
Coverage
Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Cabeirion Sanctuary, Thebes, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (discovery)
Temporal
450-420 BCE
Subject
Book 10 Circe Odyssey I
Style Period
Black-figure Boeotian (pottery style)
Work Type
skyphoi
Date
-0450/-0420
View Date
1986-03
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_02156
Item Locator
Box 5, 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: 19.05 cm
Material
pottery | 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
Boeotian (pottery style)
Id Current Repository
1893,0303.1