The Judgment of Paris

Title: The Judgment of Paris
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 530 Vase B238
Creator: Leagros Group
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Leagros Group (Attic vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Hermes leading goddesses to Paris: Hermes advances to right, bearded, with long hair, himation with purple spots, petasos, endromides, and caduceus, by his side a goat to right, followed by the three goddesses, Aphrodite, Athene, and Hera. They have long hair, with fillets, long chitons and himatia, both embroidered, and left hands extended. Aphrodite holds branches of an apple-tree with fruit in right hand, Athene has a high-crested helmet and spear in right hand, and looks back at Hera, who has a sceptre in right hand, ending in a pomegranate. By Athene's side is a hind walking to right. (b) On the left Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, playing with a plectrum on the chelys, from which hangs drapery. Before him, looking back at him, is Athene, with long hair, fillet, high-crested helmet, aegis, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in left hand a spear; by her side a bull walks to right. In advance of her is Hermes moving to right and looking back, bearded, with hair looped up, short chiton and chlamys, both embroidered, petasos, endromides, and caduceus, left hand extended. In the field, branches of an apple tree with fruit. --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 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
View: Front
Coverage: Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: 510-500 BCE
Subject: Judgment of Paris Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: neck amphorae
Date: -0510/-0500
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_00010
Item Locator: Box 1, Section 1
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: 41.91 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: 1843,1103.25