Nike

Title: Nike
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Amphora Old Catalogue 871 Vase E287
Creator: unknown
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Description: Pottery: red-figured amphora, type B. (a) Nike pouring a libation. On the right a thymiaterion with cover rests on the ground; towards it Nike, in a long sleeved chiton and bordered himation fastened on her right shoulder, flies down, turning her head towards a phiale extended in her right, so that her body is en face, with a wing extended on either side. In her left is a trefoil oinochoe with high handle. She wears bracelets and a radiated stephane: around her neck is a thin cord, to which is attached a cruciform (?) pendant; her long hair is fastened at the ends in a roll. The cover of the thymiaterion is indicated in crossed brown lines as if it were of wire network; over and around this are purple dots indicating smoke of the incense (?). (b) A wreathed, draped youth standing to left, holding up his right hand. His whiskers are rendered in faint brown. On the bottom of the foot, incised characters. End of strong style. Purple bracelets, smoke(?), and wreath. Brown inner markings of wings, edge of drapery, whiskers, and anatomy. The hair of Nike has a fringe of four rows of dots in thinned black; the treatment of her wings is peculiar: the upper part of her left wing is covered with cross-hatched brown lines: that of her right wing has the usual V-shaped marks indicating feathers. The eye is of the archaic type, with inner angle slightly opened and large pupil. Below each side, a strip, alternate maeanders and dotted cross squares. --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) Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: 5th century BCE
Subject: Book 6 Parallels Iliad Book 2-16
Style Period: Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: amphorae (storage vessels)
Date: -0500/-0400
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_00774
Item Locator: Box 2, Section 19
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: 34.29 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: 1836,0224.75