Peleus, Achilles, Cheiron
- Title
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Peleus, Achilles, Cheiron
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Name Vase
Oinochoe
Vase B620
- Creator
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Painter of London B 620
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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attributed to Class of London B 620 (Attic vase painters); attributed to Painter of London B 620 (Attic vase painter)
- Description
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Pottery: white-ground oinochoe. Late black figure style; design black on drab ground, with purple accessories and finely-incised lines. Trefoil mouth, and three-ribbed handle. On the neck, chequer-pattern; below, tongue-pattern, alternately black and outlined. Peleus bringing the infant Achilles to Cheiron: On the left is Cheiron to right, with a horse's body and hind-legs attached behind; he is bearded, with long tresses, striped himation over left shoulder, right hand extended, in left a pine-tree held over the shoulder. In front of him is a tree. On the right is Peleus advancing to left, bearded, with hair curly in front and striped himation, holding the infant Achilles in both arms, the latter also wearing a striped himation. Before them is a dog to right, with right hind-paw and head raised, as if greeting them. The handle terminates on each side of the mouth in a snake's head in relief, with black markings on red; at each junction of the handle with the vase is a female head in relief coloured red, of later date than the rest of the design. Under the handle is a palmette inverted, with tendrils ending in buds. --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
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Side
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
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520-500 BCE
- Subject
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Achilles and Chairon
Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
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White-ground
Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
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oinochoai
- Date
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-0520/-0500
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_00332
- Item Locator
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Box 1, Section 19
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 29.21 cm
- Material
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pottery | painted
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
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1867,0508.1009