Achilles fighting Penthesileia

Title: Achilles fighting Penthesileia
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Hydria Old Catalogue 471 Vase B322
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. Designs in black on red panels with borders of ivy down the sides, and palmettes along the bottom; accessories of purple and white. 1. On the shoulder: Combat of Heracles and Antaios: In the centre Heracles stooping to right, endeavours to raise Antaios from the earth; both are nude and wear fillets, Antaios alone is bearded; Heracles grasps Antaios by the right arm, and the other holds him by the left foot. Behind Heracles is Athene to right, with high-crested helmet, long chiton, and himation, in right hand a spear, the left raised in encouragement. Behind her is Hermes seated to right, bearded, with hair looped up behind, petasos, short chiton, and chlamys, sword at left side and caduceus in right hand. He is looking back at Iolaos, who stands looking on, fully armed, with spear in right hand, and shield with device of two pellets. On the right is a female figure moving away to right, looking back, with long hair, fillet, long embroidered chiton and himation, left hand raised; facing her is a bearded male figure in embroidered himation, with spear. Above are hung Heracles' quiver and embroidered chlamys. In the field, branches. 2. On the body: Amazonomachia (Amazonomachy): A quadriga driven to right by an Amazon in a high-crested helmet, with long hair, fillet, short embroidered chiton and cuirass. By the further side of the quadriga is Achilles to right, fully armed, with short embroidered chiton and shield with ivy wreath as device, attacking Penthesilea with a spear. She is vainly defending herself with her spear, and moves away to right, looking back at him; she has long hair with fillet, a high-crested helmet, and shield with two pellets as device. Beneath the horses is a fallen Amazon lying on her back to right with legs drawn up; she has long hair, fillet, short embroidered chiton, greaves, spear, and shield with device of a tripod. In front of the horses is another Amazon to left, armed like the last, except that she has no shield, hurling spear; all four Amazons wear necklaces. Underneath the foot, incised characters. --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: Myth between Iliad and Odyssey Penthesilea
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: hydriae
Date: -0510/-0500
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_01471
Item Locator: Box 4, Section 4
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: 48.26 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: 1843,1103.55