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11. Suicide of Ajax
Suicide of Ajax
Description
Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; Etruscan style. Below the designs, palmettos. (a) Suicide of Ajax (Aivas): Ajax, nude and bearded, wearing a wreath, is fallen on his knees to left over his sword, which comes out through his body by his left shoulder; blood is visible round the wound and the handle of the sword. On the left is his shield; above, a garment with border of dots suspended on two pegs. On the right are a large sheath suspended by a white band, a tree-stump, and a garment suspended on two pegs. The scene takes place in Ajax's tent; the ground is indicated below. Above Ajax is painted a retrograde inscription in white. (b) Actaeon devoured by his hounds: Actaeon is nude and bearded, with wreath and white endromides; he moves away to right, turning back and endeavouring to drive back the hounds with a crook held in right hand; two attack him on either side, and one seizes his right thigh in his teeth. Below him is inscribed as before, in Etruscan characters: NVIATA, ‘Α(κ)ταίων. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
12. Symposium
Symposium
Description
Pottery: red-figured column-krater. (a) Symposion. Two bearded men recline to left on two couches, leaning left arm on striped cushions; the one on the right has a broad radiated band (ampyx?) tied in a bow behind the ear, with end hanging down; he raises on his right a phiale, addressing his companion, who turns towards him, holding up in his right by the stem a large kylix; this one is wreathed, and has his left arm wrapped in his mantle; both have the legs draped. In the foreground between the two a flute-player stands, to right, playing on flutes; she wears a long chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is looped up with a radiated fillet. In the background hang a taenia (on left) and a ring-shaped object (wreath ?). In front of each couch is a table, on which is a dish with flowers. (b) Three draped ephebi. The one on left moves away to left, looking back at the other two; his right arm projects over the border of the design. The central one holds a staff. In the field hangs a pair of halteres (jumping-weights). Style late and careless. Yellowish-white is used for wreath and fillet of flute-player and flowers. Round the lip, in black silhouette on red, two pairs of animals, a lion and boar, stepping towards each other. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
13. Peleus-Thetis
Peleus-Thetis
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
14. Banqueters
Banqueters
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
15. Nike
Nike
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
16. Nereides Mourning (Beginning of Book 18)
Nereides Mourning (Beginning of Book 18)
Description
Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Thetis and a Nereid bringing arms, made by Hephaistos, to Achilles who mourns Patroclus. In the centre Achilles is seated in a chair to left in a dejected attitude, closely wrapped in his mantle, which is passed over the back of his head; he holds on his left arm a knotted staff, and wears a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, and sandals; on the chair is a fringed and embroidered cloth; beside his head, KAΛΟΣ, καλός. Thetis, approaching from left, has thrown her arms around his neck; she wears an Ionic chiton with dotted sleeves and embroidered diploidion, bracelets, and earrings, and her hair is looped up with a radiated stephane. Behind her a Nereid stands (similar dress, large brooch fastening diploidion on right shoulder, saccos with crosses, dotted fillet, bracelets), holding a spear and a high crested helmet. On left is Athene, who from the gesture of her right appears to be speaking. She carries a spear on her left arm and wears an Ionic chiton, tied, and a himation over her shoulders, aegis with scaly surface reaching to below waist, bracelets, and a helmet with raised cheek-pieces. The cheek-pieces of this helmet are decorated with a snake moving upwards; those of the other helmet have scale pattern; and in both the crest is supported by the arched back of a snake, whose head and tail project in front and at back. On right of Achilles a woman stands to front, holding the shield which Thetis has brought (device, in silhouette, a woman to front in chiton with apoptygma, looking to left, and holding at full extent of both arms a festooned taenia); she covers her face with her right at the sight of the goddesses. She wears sleeved chiton, himation, bracelets and earrings, and an opisthosphendone. On right stands a bearded old man looking on, leaning on his staff, draped in a mantle. The earrings have triple pendants. (b) Nereids with arms, and a Greek. The Greek, wreathed, stands to left with right resting on spear, closely draped in a mantle, which passes over the back of his head. Facing him are two Nereids, one holding a cuirass (side view), the other, holding a sword in her right (the scabbard decorated with zigzags), raises with her left the edge of her chiton; the alternate flaps of the cuirass and the chape of the scabbard are black. On right a third Nereid stands to left, holding up in her right a helmet of different form; in her left a sword, hanging by its belt, drawn entirely in silhouette, and against her left arm a spear; all three wear sleeved chiton and himation; the one on left wears a radiated fillet, the next one a dotted saccos and bracelets, and the one on right a radiated fillet and bracelets. On right ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός. Beneath the handle on left of a, an altar in form of an Ionic capital, with volutes and necking. Beneath the other handle, a square base, on which is a helmet to left, the crest ornamented with a snake in light brown. Purple fillets, inscriptions, and wreaths in b. Brown upper folds of chiton of Thetis and of two Nereids. The hair and beard of the old man and his fillet are indicated in brown outline; the hair of Achilles, in single wavy brown lines. Eye in transition type. Below, a continuous band of key pattern; above each side, a strip of linked lotus buds. On the lower part of each handle, an inverted palmette. Around the neck, and below the design, a thin line of purple. The spears overlap the border. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
17. Peleus lifting Thetis
Peleus lifting Thetis
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
18. E 575 (left), Painter of Yale Lekythos (right)
E 575 (left), Painter of Yale Lekythos (right)
Description
On left is Lekythos, Vase E575 by an unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter) in ca. 470 BCE measuring 39.37 cm in Height. Vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered Gela, Sicily, Italy, and housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1863,0728.97. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Woman pouring wine for a warrior. On the right stands a bearded warrior en face, with left foot turned to right, with short tied chiton, mantle over shoulders, helmet with raised cheek-pieces, greaves, spear held upright in right, and shield (device, an ithyphallic satyr standing to left with right leg advanced, body thrown back, right hand on hip, blowing a long trumpet; in black silhouette, resting on a thin black ground-line). From the shield hangs an apron attached to the rim by three black studs, with a border of zigzags between them; the lower edge is fringed with tabs in form of spear-heads; above this is an embattled line, and then a large human left eye and eyebrow, with eyelashes above and below, indicated in thinned black. The warrior looks to left at a woman in long Ionic chiton and mantle, hair looped up with fillet, who offers him with her right a phiale filled from an oinochoe in her left hand. Late stage of large style. Brown inner markings and edge of hair. Below and above, maeander. On shoulder, central inverted palmette with two side palmettes and two flowers (partly broken away); round neck, egg pattern. --The British Museum; On right is Lekythos, Vase E576 by Painter of the Yale Lekythos in 470-450 BCE measuring 35.56 cm in Height. Vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered Gela, Sicily, Italy, and housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1863,0728.348. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Nike pouring wine for a warrior. On the right a youthful warrior stands en face, with short chiton, cuirass (decorated with panther's mask in outline on shoulder-piece), helmet with raised cheek-pieces, greaves and shield (device, a lion lying to left, black silhouette on black ground-line), holding spear upright in right hand; he looks to left at Nike, who pours wine from an oinochoe into a phiale; she wears a long Ionic chiton, mantle and sphendone, and her hair is looped up. Late stage of large style. Brown inner markings and edge of hair. Below and above, maeander. On shoulder, central inverted palmette with two side palmettes and two flower; round neck, egg 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
19. Herakles receives shirt of Nessos
Herakles receives shirt of Nessos
Description
Pottery: red-figured pelike: The Shirt of Nessos. (a) Heracles receiving the poisoned robe. Heracles (short, curly hair and beard, nude) has removed his lion's skin and dropped his club, and steps forward from left to receive a rolled up robe which a figure standing on right offers him. This figure appears from the hair to be male (Lichas?), although wearing a sleeved talaric chiton and a bordered mantle covering the left arm: the hair falls only to the neck in short wavy curls. The forehead of this figure is marked with two wrinkles. (b) A woman, Deianeira (?), exactly in the same position and dress as Lichas in a: but with long hair looped up and confined with a fillet wound twice round it each way. Surface slightly decayed. Purple fillet. Brown inner markings. Drawing minute and careful, but figures heavy, the heads being very long in proportion to their width. The hair and beard of Heracles are in raised dots. The muscle on the thigh is curiously indicated. Below and above each side, a strip of egg pattern. --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
20. Peleus surprises Thetis amid reeds at shore
Peleus surprises Thetis amid reeds at shore
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
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