Death of Prokris

Title: Death of Prokris
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Column krater Old Catalogue 1269 Vase E477
Creator: Hephaistos Painter
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Hephaistos Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-ca. 520 BCE)
Description: Pottery: red-figured column-krater. (a) The death of Procris. Procris, in a short chiton which leaves her right shoulder bare, falls wounded to right, with her left hand and knee on raised ground with her right she vainly tries to pull out the spear which has pierced her beside the right breast; her head, en face, falls on her right shoulder, and her eyes are closed above her to the left, a Harpy (?) waiting for her soul. On the left, Kephalos with chlamys and petasos at back, resting right on a club, stands en face, looking on, beating his forehead with his left with a gesture of sorrow. His hound, which he holds by a cord round its neck, stands with nose raised, sniffing at Procris. On the right Erechtheus, the father of Procris, rushes forward, extending his right arm with a gesture of dismay; he is bearded and wreathed and has a mantle, and a sceptre along his left arm. (b) Three draped ephebi conversing: the central one looks to right, the two others staff in hand. Late stage of large style. Purple cord and ground-line. Brown inner marking and edge of hair. Eye in profile. On each side of each design, ivy pattern; above, tongue pattern; forming panel. Round the neck and on the upper surface of the lip, linked lotus-buds; round lip, ivy pattern; on the upper surface of each handle, a palmette. All these patterns black on red. --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: Side
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal: ca. 460-430 BCE
Subject: Book 19 Footwashing Legitawa Odyssey II Previous owners of bow
Style Period: Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: column kraters
Date: -0460/-0430
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_02364
Item Locator: Box 6, Section 20
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: 38.1 cm Diameter: 33.02 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
Cultural Context: Attic (culture)
Id Current Repository: 1772,0320.36.