Dragging Hektor

Title
Dragging Hektor
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Amphora
Creator
Priam Painter
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
attributed to Priam Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 530-510 BCE)
Description
Pottery: black-figured amphora : the dragging of Hektor; Achilles drags Hektor's corpse around Patroklos' tomb. On the right is the white tomb mound with Patroklos' armed soul above. In the centre is the winged messenger-goddess, who has come to put a stop to Achilles' treatment of the corpse. --The British Museum Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
View
Front; Detail
Coverage
Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Temporal
ca. 520-510 BCE
Subject
Books 22-24 Dragging Hektor Iliad II
Style Period
Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
amphorae (storage vessels)
Date
-0520/-0510
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_01330
Item Locator
Box 3, Section 25
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: 50.5 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
1899,0721.3