Escape from Cyclops
- Title
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Escape from Cyclops
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Oinochoe
Vase B502
- Creator
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Athena Painter
Painter of Vatican G. 49
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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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
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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
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Front
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Kámiros, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
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ca. 540-480 BCE
- Subject
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Book 9
Escape from Polyphemos
Odyssey I
- Style Period
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Black-figure
Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
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oinochoai
- Date
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-0540/-0480
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_02120
- Item Locator
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Box 5, Section 12
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 19.05 cm
- Material
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pottery | wheel-made; slipped; incised; painted
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Attic (culture)
Archaic (Greek culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
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1864,1007.228