Nike and Warrior
- Title
- Nike and Warrior
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Pelike Vase E406
- Creator
- Washing Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Washing Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-ca. 420 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Nike pouring libation before young warrior. On the left Nike, in a long sleeved chiton with apoptygma, her hair looped up with a fillet, flies to right, holding downwards in her left hand a blazing torch; from an oinochoe in her right she pours wine into a phiale which the warrior holds sloping downwards, so that the wine falls on the ground. He stands en face, but looks towards Nike, holding a spear upright in his left hand. He wears a short chiton, a cuirass decorated with stars on the shoulders, and a wreath of laurel; over his left forearm hangs a mantle. (b) An ephebos, closely draped, confronted on right by a woman in himation and sleeved chiton, who holds out in her right a long taenia; below, a square box decorated with a rosette. Refined execution, but proportions heavy. Purple wine, flame, wreath, fillets, and ends of taenia. Brown inner markings, markings of torch and wings, and for relieving the folds of drapery in a. Eye in profile. Below a, the strip of groups of three maeanders separated by chequer squares; in b they are separated by red cross squares; above each side, egg pattern. A splash of black paint has fallen on the cuirass of the warrior. --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
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 430-420 BCE
- Subject
- Book 6 Parallels Iliad Book 2-16
- Style Period
- Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- pelikai
- Date
- -0430/-0420
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00689
- Item Locator
- Box 2, Section 12
- 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: 24.13 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- 1867,0508.1146
