Sacrifice of Polyxena
- Title
- Sacrifice of Polyxena
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Amphora
- Creator
- Timiades Painter Tyrrhenian Group
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to the Timiades Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 575-ca. 550 BCE); attributed to Tyrrhenian Group (Attic vase painters, active ca. 575-550 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured amphora showing the sacrifice of the Trojan princess Polyxene. On the reverse are four dancing men between two cocks, and two friezes of animals. --The British Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 570-550 BCE
- Subject
- Mourning for Achilles Myth between Iliad and Odyssey Sacrifice of Polyxena
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- amphorae (storage vessels)
- Date
- -0570/-0550
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01618
- Item Locator
- Box 4, Section 15
- 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 cm Diameter: 24 cm Weight: 23 g
- 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
- 1897,0727.2
