Recovery of Helen by Menelaos
- Title
- Recovery of Helen by Menelaos
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 510 Vase B244
- Creator
- Antimenes Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Antimenes Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 530-ca. 510 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Birth of Athene: In the centre is Zeus seated to right on an okladias, bearded, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and striped himation, sceptre in left hand. From his head springs a diminutive Athene to right, with one leg advanced, lofty helmet with cheek pieces, aegis, long striped chiton, shield, and spear brandished in right hand. On either side of Zeus is an Eileithyia, facing him, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and diploidion, both hands raised. On the left is Hermes to right, bearded, with long hair, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; on the right is Hephaestos departing, looking back, nude and bearded, with double-headed axe over right shoulder. (b) Acamas and Demophon with Aethra: In the centre is Aethra to right, in long chiton and himation veiling her head, both embroidered, and in advance of her is Demophon, looking back at her and taking hold of her himation. On the left is Acamas to right; both are fully armed, with short embroidered chitons; Acamas has a Boeotian shield. On the right is a beardless male figure to left with long chiton and embroidered himation. --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
- ca. 520 BCE
- Subject
- Myth between Iliad and Odyssey Return of Helen
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- neck amphorae
- Date
- -0525/-0515
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01847
- Item Locator
- Box 4, Section 30
- 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: 38.1 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
- 1836,0224.10
