Escape from Cyclops

Title: Escape from Cyclops
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Oinochoe Vase B502
Creator: Athena Painter Painter of Vatican G. 49
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to workshop of Athena Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE); attributed to Painter of Vatican G. 49 (Attic vase painter, active ca. 500-475 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
View: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Kámiros, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 540-480 BCE
Subject: Book 9 Escape from Polyphemos Odyssey I
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: oinochoai
Date: -0540/-0480
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_02078
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: 19.05 cm
Material: pottery | wheel-made; slipped; incised; 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) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
Id Current Repository: 1864,1007.228