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Lowenstam, Steven
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- Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil or perfume flask). Hypnos and Thanatos, personifications of Sleep and Death, carrying the body of a warrior (perhaps Sarpedon?). The tomb is indicated by a plain stele, around which two taeniae are tied (now faded), resting on a triple plinth. On left Thanatos, winged and distinguished by his rough hair and beard, in a short chiton, bends forward holding with both arms the thighs of the dead person, whose body is supported on the right by Hypnos, with both hands under its shoulders. Hypnos is a youthful winged figure, with long straight hair falling to his shoulders, wearing short chiton which has a broad border at the upper and lower edges; he looks at Thanatos. The warrior, a youthful figure with wavy hair falling to his shoulder wears a cuirass decorated around the waist with a band of egg pattern. Drawing of good period, partly faded. Design in thinned black outline; hair dark red (faded). Chiton of Thanatos, and borders of chiton of Hypnos, and taeniae vermilion; pattern of cuirass yellow. Eye in profile. Above, maeander; on shoulder, pattern of three palmettes, brown on white. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
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- Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil or perfume flask). Hypnos and Thanatos, personifications of Sleep and Death, carrying the body of a warrior (perhaps Sarpedon?). The tomb is indicated by a plain stele, around which two taeniae are tied (now faded), resting on a triple plinth. On left Thanatos, winged and distinguished by his rough hair and beard, in a short chiton, bends forward holding with both arms the thighs of the dead person, whose body is supported on the right by Hypnos, with both hands under its shoulders. Hypnos is a youthful winged figure, with long straight hair falling to his shoulders, wearing short chiton which has a broad border at the upper and lower edges; he looks at Thanatos. The warrior, a youthful figure with wavy hair falling to his shoulder wears a cuirass decorated around the waist with a band of egg pattern. Drawing of good period, partly faded. Design in thinned black outline; hair dark red (faded). Chiton of Thanatos, and borders of chiton of Hypnos, and taeniae vermilion; pattern of cuirass yellow. Eye in profile. Above, maeander; on shoulder, pattern of three palmettes, brown on white. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida. Mount Ida is indicated on left by a series of wavy lines; Paris is seated on the top, a wreathed youth with wavy hair falling to his neck, and a mantle about his lower limbs and left arm, playing upon the chelys with a plectrum. On the right Hermes stands en face, but looking towards Paris; he is bearded, and has a short chiton, a chlamys fastened on the right shoulder, and a petasos hanging at his back; his left arm is concealed by his mantle; in his right hand, which hangs at his side, is a caduceus. (b) Draped ephebos resting right on staff, standing en face, looking to left. Fine style. Purple ground-lines, cord of petasos, pegs of lyre, and wreath; brown inner markings. Ends of hair in thinned black. Eye in developed profile type. Below a, sets of three maeanders alternately to right and left, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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- On left is a Neck-amphora, Vase E324, measuring at 33.655 cm in height and listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1059. Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum; On right is a Neck-amphora, Vase E323, measuring at 34.29 cm in height and listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1116. Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida. Mount Ida is indicated on left by a series of wavy lines; Paris is seated on the top, a wreathed youth with wavy hair falling to his neck, and a mantle about his lower limbs and left arm, playing upon the chelys with a plectrum. On the right Hermes stands en face, but looking towards Paris; he is bearded, and has a short chiton, a chlamys fastened on the right shoulder, and a petasos hanging at his back; his left arm is concealed by his mantle; in his right hand, which hangs at his side, is a caduceus. (b) Draped ephebos resting right on staff, standing en face, looking to left. Fine style. Purple ground-lines, cord of petasos, pegs of lyre, and wreath; brown inner markings. Ends of hair in thinned black. Eye in developed profile type. Below a, sets of three maeanders alternately to right and left, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Menelaos pursuing Helen. Young warrior pursuing a woman with a sword. The woman flees to right, her right hand pressed to bosom with gesture of fear, her left enveloped in himation. She wears a long chiton, diploidion with apoptygma, tied at waist with a shawl instead of a girdle (?), and her hair is looped up with many ties of a fillet. She looks back at her pursuer, who strides forward with drawn sword, left extended holding scabbard. He is beardless, with wavy hair falling to shoulders and tied with fillet, and wears short chiton, cuirass, and a mantle on outstretched left. His cuirass has the sides decorated with vertical rows of dots (representing scales ?). (b) Woman running to right with arms outstretched on either side, looking back; she wears a sleeved chiton, himation, and saccos. Drawing of good period. Excessive drapery. Purple swordbelt and fillets, brown ends of hair, shading of flaps of cuirass, and folds of chiton in b. Below a, sets of three maeanders in alternate directions, separated by dotted crosses ; below b, key pattern to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
8. Memnon
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- Pottery: red-figured kylix. Interior: Within a circle consisting of sets of four to seven single maeanders, separated by red cross squares, a woman seated in a chair, confronted on right by a youth closely draped, who leans backward, with his staff resting against his back, keeping it in position with hands under his cloak. The woman holds between each thumb and forefinger a flower, raising the one in her right towards her face. She wears a sleeved chiton, a himation passing over her left shoulder, and her hair is looped up and confined with a sphendone; beside her in the field hangs a mirror. The youth wears a fillet. The seat of the chair is decorated with vertical bands in sets of three, in very light brown. The figures rest on a line which cuts off an exergue left red. Exterior: (a) Combat of Achilles and Memnon in presence of Thetis and Eos. Memnon falls backward to right, his right leg bending under him, his spear glancing harmlessly off his opponent's thigh: his opponent's spear, broken in two, sticks in his right groin, and the purple blood gushes out. He is bearded, and wears short chiton, cuirass with scale body, and a helmet with low visor and cheek-pieces; his left arm with the shield falls helplessly backward. Achilles, disregarding the lance of Memnon, strides forward to despatch him with his sword; he wears a short chiton, a cuirass decorated with chequers, a Greek helmet with frontal decorated with a snake; his shield, like that of Memnon, is seen from the interior; his scabbard hangs from a purple cross-belt; he is beardless, and has long hair falling in parallel wavy tresses, like that of Memnon. Behind Achilles Thetis moves swiftly forward with a gesture of pleasure, raising both hands as if to clap them; her long hair is neatly arranged and tied with a fillet, which forms a bow at the back. Behind Memnon Eos rushes forward with outstretched right, tearing her disordered hair with her left. Each of the goddesses wears a long sleeved chiton, undertied, and a himation over the left shoulder. Their feet overlap the palmette ornament. (b) Two pairs of warriors. On the left a man wearing chlamys and fillet, and holding spear, confronted by a man with shield and spear, dressed in short chiton, helmet and cuirass, with a mantle over his shoulders; device, a Pegasos springing to left. Next is a similar figure en face, also with shield and spear, but with helmet tilted back; device, a lion springing to left. He looks to right over his shield at a fourth warrior, who has shield and spear on left arm and holds out his helmet in his right; he is dressed like the last, and has a purple fillet around his hair; device, a crescent. On the left of him, καλός. All these figures are bearded, and have long curly hair. Purple is used for the flowers and inscriptions, and in the details indicated below. No inner markings. The hair of the women is indicated by dark brown lines on a light brown wash. Eye of the archaic type, in transition to profile (i.e. with disc against inner angle slightly opened). Below each handle a single palmette. --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
9. Memnon
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured kylix. Interior: Within a circle consisting of sets of four to seven single maeanders, separated by red cross squares, a woman seated in a chair, confronted on right by a youth closely draped, who leans backward, with his staff resting against his back, keeping it in position with hands under his cloak. The woman holds between each thumb and forefinger a flower, raising the one in her right towards her face. She wears a sleeved chiton, a himation passing over her left shoulder, and her hair is looped up and confined with a sphendone; beside her in the field hangs a mirror. The youth wears a fillet. The seat of the chair is decorated with vertical bands in sets of three, in very light brown. The figures rest on a line which cuts off an exergue left red. Exterior: (a) Combat of Achilles and Memnon in presence of Thetis and Eos. Memnon falls backward to right, his right leg bending under him, his spear glancing harmlessly off his opponent's thigh: his opponent's spear, broken in two, sticks in his right groin, and the purple blood gushes out. He is bearded, and wears short chiton, cuirass with scale body, and a helmet with low visor and cheek-pieces; his left arm with the shield falls helplessly backward. Achilles, disregarding the lance of Memnon, strides forward to despatch him with his sword; he wears a short chiton, a cuirass decorated with chequers, a Greek helmet with frontal decorated with a snake; his shield, like that of Memnon, is seen from the interior; his scabbard hangs from a purple cross-belt; he is beardless, and has long hair falling in parallel wavy tresses, like that of Memnon. Behind Achilles Thetis moves swiftly forward with a gesture of pleasure, raising both hands as if to clap them; her long hair is neatly arranged and tied with a fillet, which forms a bow at the back. Behind Memnon Eos rushes forward with outstretched right, tearing her disordered hair with her left. Each of the goddesses wears a long sleeved chiton, undertied, and a himation over the left shoulder. Their feet overlap the palmette ornament. (b) Two pairs of warriors. On the left a man wearing chlamys and fillet, and holding spear, confronted by a man with shield and spear, dressed in short chiton, helmet and cuirass, with a mantle over his shoulders; device, a Pegasos springing to left. Next is a similar figure en face, also with shield and spear, but with helmet tilted back; device, a lion springing to left. He looks to right over his shield at a fourth warrior, who has shield and spear on left arm and holds out his helmet in his right; he is dressed like the last, and has a purple fillet around his hair; device, a crescent. On the left of him, καλός. All these figures are bearded, and have long curly hair. Purple is used for the flowers and inscriptions, and in the details indicated below. No inner markings. The hair of the women is indicated by dark brown lines on a light brown wash. Eye of the archaic type, in transition to profile (i.e. with disc against inner angle slightly opened). Below each handle a single palmette. --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