Medea rejuvenating ram

Title
Medea rejuvenating ram
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Hydria Old Catalogue 466 Vase B328
Creator
Leagros Group
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
attributed to Leagros Group (Ancient Greek vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
Description
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Rather coarse style. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides and lotus-buds along the bottom; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: In the centre a bearded figure to right with embroidered chlamys over left shoulder, seizing with both hands a goat to right, which looks back at him. On either side is a seated female figure looking on, with long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, and hands extended. On the left is a nude bearded figure departing, and looking back. 2. On the body: Medea boiling the ram: In the centre is a large lebes placed on a tripod over a fire, out of which the forepart of a ram appears to right. On the right is Medea to right looking to left, waving her arms over the lebes; by her side is Jason kneeling to left, nude and bearded, placing a log on the fire. On the other side of the lebes is one of Pelias' daughters to right, looking back at him with left hand extended; she and Medea both have long hair, fillets, and long chitons and himatia, both embroidered. On the left is Pelias seated to right, with white beard and long tresses with fillet, wrapped in an embroidered himation, sceptre in left hand. In the field, branches. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
View
Front
Coverage
Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Temporal
510-500 BCE
Subject
Aeneid Medea
Style Period
Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
hydriae
Date
-0510/-0500
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_02682
Item Locator
Box 7, Section 19
Rights
In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder
University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name
Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Measurements
Width: 30 cm Depth: 27.5 mm Weight: 2.2 kg Height: 43.18 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
Attic (culture) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
Id Current Repository
1843,1103.59