Escape from Cyclops
- Title
- Escape from Cyclops
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Old Catalogue 765 Vase B687
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery lekythos decorated in the Six technique. Design black, indicated by incised lines, on a black ground, with red and white accessories; neck and shoulder red with black and white rays. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: Odysseus is tied under the belly of the ram to right, looking up; he is beardless, with short chiton and sword held up in left hand. He is painted red throughout, the ram's horns and breast white. In the field, imitation inscriptions. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 480 BCE
- Subject
- Book 9 Escape from Polyphemos Odyssey I
- Style Period
- Six's Technique Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0485/-0475
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_02073
- 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: 15.24 cm
- Material
- pottery
- 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)
- Id Current Repository
- 1837,0609.72
