Arming

Title: Arming
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Oinochoe Vase B521
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Guide-line Class (Greek vase painters, active ca. 500-475 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). High grooved handle. Design black on a red panel, with chequer-pattern above; accessories of white and purple. Warrior arming: In the centre is the warrior to right, beardless, with cuirass, short embroidered chiton, sword at side, and a greave on right leg, painted purple; he holds up left leg to put on the other greave. Facing him is a female figure with long hair, fillet, and long striped chiton, holding his spear and shield; the device on the latter is a bull's head. Behind her is a warrior to left, with visored helmet, greaves, the left one painted purple, spear and shield with the device of a bent leg; behind him an archer departing to right, looking back, with peaked cap, short purple chiton, and quiver with lid in the form of a wing. On the left is a warrior departing and looking back, armed as the last with a chlamys; on his shield is a bull's head. --The British Museum 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) Kámiros, Rhodes, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 500 BCE
Subject: Arming Iliad Book 19 Iliad II
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: oinochoai
Date: -0505/-0495
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_01144
Item Locator: Box 3, Section 6
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: 23.495 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)
Id Current Repository: 1864,1007.10