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1. Pericles, copy
Pericles, copy
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
2. Pericles, copy
Pericles, copy
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
3. Odysseus and Sirens
Odysseus and Sirens
Description
Panel from a painted wall: Ulysses resists the songs of the Sirens. Ulysses is tied to the mast of his ship. The Sirens perch on high rocks, with the bones of earlier victims around them. The painting shows one siren playing the twin pipes, another the lyre, and the third presumably singing. This painting is a companion to 1867.5-8.1355. --The British Museum, Hinks, R P, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan & Roman Paintings & Mosaics in the British Museum: Paintings, London, BMP, 1933
4. Pericles, copy
Pericles, copy
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
5. Taking Away Briseis
Taking Away Briseis
Description
Fragment of a bronze scabbard: Achilles and Briseis. The lower of the two scenes on the fragment shows Briseis led away between two heralds. The subject of the upper scene is uncertain, but it may represent Patroklos asking Achilles to lend him his armour. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
6. Paris 'Altemps'
Paris 'Altemps'
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
7. Taking away Briseis
Taking away Briseis
Description
Fragment of a bronze scabbard: Achilles and Briseis. The lower of the two scenes on the fragment shows Briseis led away between two heralds. The subject of the upper scene is uncertain, but it may represent Patroklos asking Achilles to lend him his armour. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
8. Paris 'Altemps'
Paris 'Altemps'
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
9. The Portland Vase
The Portland Vase
Description
Amphora in translucent dark cobalt blue and opaque white cameo glass. The cylindrical neck widens out to a sloping shoulder and ovoid body, whose squatness is emphasized by the lack of a foot. Everted mouth with rounded rim which is cut very unevenly on the upper side so that it is not horizontal; below this the neck curves out smoothly to the carination of the shoulder. Handles from the centre of the neck to the shoulder. The disc base (1945.9-27.2) is discussed separately. A separate Registration Number (1948.10-18.1) was assigned to approximately forty small fragments, most of which were incorporated during the most recent restoration. Broken and mended; the bottom is missing, and the underside of the vessel has been roughly trimmed and the edge left grozed, perhaps in antiquity. Slight iridescence in patches all over the inside of the vessel, slight pitting on exterior and red streaks and bubbles in the blue glass. Grinding all over the inside of the vessel, probably achieved by a filling of grit. The white design may have been reworked after its rediscovery in the sixteenth century. The inside of the rim is decorated with asymmetrical grooves either side of a ridge. The handles are vertically ridged on the outside and cut in v-shaped wedge sections. Figured design carved in the white glass, divided into two portions by a bearded and perhaps horned head below the lower attachment of each handle. One group of four persons shows a young man emerging from a rustic shrine behind which grows a shrub. His right arm held behind him clasps his cloak that is draped around the pillar of the shrine; his left arm stretched before him clasps the right arm of a half-draped lady seated on the ground turning back towards him and caressing a serpent-like creature that rises up towards her face. Eros flies to the right, above the lady, holding a bow in the left hand, a torch in his right. To the right stands a bearded man resting his chin on his right arm that itself rests on his right bent knee, the foot supported by a ledge below a tree that spreads out its branches; behind him is another tree. On the other side, at the extreme left, is a rectangular column beside which is a young man seated to the left on a rock shown in a series of steps with his head turned back towards a half-draped girl reclining to the right on the same rock with her right arm raised up to her head that is turned back to look towards the floor behind her; from her left hand hangs a burning torch. To her right, seated to the right on another rock and looking back towards the scene, sits another half-draped girl holding a sceptre in her left hand. The scene is closed by the shrub that grows from the back of the rustic shrine described above. --The British Museum, Tatton-Brown, Veronica A; Gudenrath, W; Roberts, Paul C; Whitehouse, D, Roman Cameo Glass, Vol. II, London, BMP, 2007; Walters, H B, Catalogue of Engraved Gems & Cameos, Greek, Etruscan & Roman in the British Museum, London, BMP, 1926; Jenkins, Ian; Sloan, Kim, Vases and Volcanoes - Sir William Hamilton and his collection, London, BMP, 1996; Tait, Hugh (editor), Five Thousand Years of Glass, London, BMP, 1991
10. Paris
Paris
Description
A disc in translucent blue and opaque white cameo glass. The disc has been cut down from a larger composition. The decoration, in white, shows the upper part of a young man in profile, gazing to the right; the forefinger of his right hand is raised towards the chin expressing doubt or consternation. --The British Museum, Tatton-Brown, Veronica A; Gudenrath, W; Roberts, Paul C; Whitehouse, D, Roman Cameo Glass, Vol. II, London, BMP, 2007; Tait, Hugh (editor), Five Thousand Years of Glass, London, BMP, 1991
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