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1. Stealing of Palladium from Satyr Play
Stealing of Palladium from Satyr Play
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Pottery: red-figured oinochoe (jug). Design red and white on a black panel, with details in purple; borders of egg-moulding above, chevrons down the sides, and wave-pattern along the bottom. Scene from a burlesque of the seizure of the Palladion: On the left is Odysseus moving to left, turned to the front, bearded, with hair streaming out on either side of his face; he wears a mask, white pilos, and chlamys on left arm; in his right hand is a drawn sword, and in left he carries the Palladion, a figure of Athene painted white, with high crested helmet, long close girt chiton, shield on left arm, right hand raised. He is followed by Diomedes, who has curly hair, and wears a mask with slight beard; at his back is slung a white petasos, and round his left leg is a white band; he holds out his left arm muffled in drapery. On either side is a laurel-branch; above, three white phialae, and a row of ivy-leaves. The ground-lines are indicated. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
2. Leda and Swan
Leda and Swan
Description
The excessive mourning of the mythological figure Niobe decorates this Apulian red-figure loutrophoros. Niobe's foolish boasting led to the slaughter of her fourteen children by the gods Apollo and Artemis. For nine days and nights, she mourned, ignoring family members' attempts to comfort her. Finally, Zeus took pity on Niobe's grief and turned her to stone. On this vase, Niobe stands in a funerary naiskos surrounded by four attendants holding grave offerings. Her brother Pelops drives up in his chariot with his bride Hippodameia to urge her to stop grieving. By painting the lower part of her dress white, the painter indicated Niobe slowly turning to stone from the feet up. The back of the vase also depicts a funerary naiskos flanked by attendants and containing a large funerary lekythos. Both the structure and the vessel are painted white to represent stone. Loutrophoroi, made of both terracotta and marble, were placed as markers on the graves of the unwed. In the scene on the front, two loutrophoroi flank Niobe. The one on the right with figural decoration is the same form as this vase. As these painted depictions show, this terracotta loutrophoros would originally have been placed on a stand. --The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Acquisitions/1986." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 15 (1987), pp. 163 - 164, no. 17.; Simon, Erika. "Eirene und Pax. Friedensgottinen in der Antike," Sitzingsberichte der Wissenshaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, 24,3 (1988), p. 68. pl. 7 (detail).; Schauenburg, Konrad. "Zur Grabsymbolik apulischen Vasen," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts 104 (1989), pp. 19-60. pp. 46-47; figs. 31-32.; Trendall, Arthur Dale. The Red-figured Vases of South Italy and Sicily. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989. pp. 85-86; fig. 184.; Hofstetter, Eva. Sirenem im archaischen und klassischen Griechenland. Wurzburg: 1990. p. 268, ff. passim, no. W 45; pl. 29, 1; Jentoft-Nilsen, Marit R., and Arthur Dale Trendall. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. J. Paul Getty Museum 4 (USA 27). Malibu: 1991. Pp. 6-9; fig. 3; pls. 186-188; 189, 3-5.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 3rd ed. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991), p. 53.; Trendall, Arthur Dale, and Alexander Cambitoglou. Second Supplement to The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London, 60). London: 1991-1992. pp. 180-181, no. 20/278-2.; Kahil, Lily, and Noelle Icard-Gianolio. "Leda," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VI (1992), pp. 231-246. p. 233, no. 17; pls. 110, 111.; Aellen, Christian. A la Recherche de l'Ordre Cosmique. Forme et Fonction des Personifications dans la Ceramique Italiote. Zurich: 1994. p. 212, cat. no. 85; pp. 21, 30, 94, 99, 104-105, 120, 130, 139-140, 142-143, 146, 150, 156-158, 182, 191-192; pls. 101-104.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 4th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 55.; Kossatz-Deissmann, Anneliese. "Eniautos," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), p. 573. pl. 361; Kossatz-Deissmann, Anneliese. "Astrape," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), pp. 535-536. no. 5; pl. 349; Bazant, Jan. "Hypnos," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), pp. 643-645. p. 644, no. 2; Towne Markus, Elana. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Antiquities. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997) pp. 72, 93.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 55.; Tsiafakis, Despoina. "Life and Death at the Hands of a Siren," Studia Varia from the J. Paul Getty Museum 2. Occasional Papers on Antiquities 10 (2001), pp. 7-24. p. 12; fig. 4.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002) p. 124.; Stafford, Emma. "Brother, Son, Friend, and Healer: Sleep the God." In Sleep. Thomas Wiedemann and Ken Dowden, eds. (Bari: Levante Editori, 2003) pp. 85-88, figs. 9a-9c.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, fourth edition (New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc, 2004) pp. 515-516, fig. 19.2.; Parker, Robert. Polytheism and Saociety at Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) pp. 337, 339, fig. 26.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, fifth edition (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), p. 534, fig. 19.2.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 7th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 36, ill.; Taplin, Oliver. Pots & Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-Painting in the Fourth Century B.C. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007) , pp. 229-230, ills.; Kostouros, George. A Narrative of the Nemean Games (Nemea: George Kostouros, 2008) , p. 332, fig. 416.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth (Madison: Pearson Longman, 2009) pg.509, fig.19.2; Blamberger, Gunter and Boschung, Dietrich. Morphomata Kulturelle Figurationen: Genese, Dynamik und Medialitat (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011), p. 59, 208-209, 211, 216, figs. 5-7,9,12. Pg. 216 also features an image of the vessel.; Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark D. Looking at Greek Art (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp.13, 32,43,129,179,213, figs.9,15,20,48,66,82.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, 7e... Textbook and e-book slated for September 2013; more information forthcoming.
3. Sack of Troy
Sack of Troy
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding; underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath; at the back of the neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes; above each design on the body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout. On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre is Dionysos moving rapidly to right, looking back; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bordered chlamys over left arm held up in right hand, thyrsos in left. On either side of him is a Maenad moving to right, with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; the one on the left has a thyrsos in right hand and a blazing torch in left; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a radiated ampyx, chiton over left shoulder, and a tympanon in left hand; she looks upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit. On the body: (a) Iliupersis: (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front; the statue looks to right and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs, aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in right hand, shield on left arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to left with face to front, clasping the statue with both hands; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over right shoulder, with apoptygma. On the right stands Ajax to left with right foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over left shoulder confined by a belt with white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in left hand; in right hand is his shield (device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra. Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side. On the right is Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her, right hand raised, left extended. (2.) On the left, the sacrifice of Polyxena is represented. Polyxena is fallen to right at the foot of the statue, clasping it with both arms; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up to carry her off, with left hand extended to seize her; he is beardless, with white pilos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, sword slung at side, long double-pointed spear in right hand. Above the scene on the left is Athene seated to right, with hair in a knot at the back tied with a double fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, aegis spotted white with snakes in front and radiated border with white zigzags, long chiton and apoptygma with border as the aegis, spear in right hand. Behind her is an Ionic column, round which is a string of large beads ending in tassels. (3.) Above are Anchises and Ascanios departing to right; Anchises is partly bald, with white hair, beard, and eyebrows, bordered embroidered himation over left arm, and staff in left hand; with right hand he leads Ascanios, who has a bordered himation over left arm. Behind them is a laurel-tree, and above are seen the segments of two shields, white with a border of dots. The ground-lines are indicated by white dots. (b) Departure of a warrior (?): In the centre is a beardless warrior to left with right foot raised on a rock, pilos, endromides, bordered himation over left shoulder, and spear in right hand; his left hand rests on his shield, which has a four-spoked wheel as device, with dots round the rim. Facing him is a beardless warrior with pilos slung at back, fillet, chlamys over his arms, endromides, spear in right hand, two fingers of left hand raised, as if addressing the other. Behind on a slightly higher level is a female figure to right with hair in a knot behind, embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma reaching to the hips, sandals, situla in right hand; in left hand she holds out phiale. Behind her hangs an embroidered taenia; above the warriors is seen part of a shield with device of an eight-point star and border of dots, and an open window with double shutter on which are rows of white spots. On the right is a youth seated to right looking, back, with fillet, drapery under him, and spear in left hand; on a higher level is a female figure to right looking back, with hair in a knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma; with right hand she draws forward her drapery from behind. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
4. Iphigenia
Iphigenia
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding; underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath; at the back of the neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes; above each design on the body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout. On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre is Dionysos moving rapidly to right, looking back; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bordered chlamys over left arm held up in right hand, thyrsos in left. On either side of him is a Maenad moving to right, with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; the one on the left has a thyrsos in right hand and a blazing torch in left; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a radiated ampyx, chiton over left shoulder, and a tympanon in left hand; she looks upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit. On the body: (a) Iliupersis: (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front; the statue looks to right and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs, aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in right hand, shield on left arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to left with face to front, clasping the statue with both hands; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over right shoulder, with apoptygma. On the right stands Ajax to left with right foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over left shoulder confined by a belt with white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in left hand; in right hand is his shield (device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra. Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side. On the right is Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her, right hand raised, left extended. (2.) On the left, the sacrifice of Polyxena is represented. Polyxena is fallen to right at the foot of the statue, clasping it with both arms; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up to carry her off, with left hand extended to seize her; he is beardless, with white pilos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, sword slung at side, long double-pointed spear in right hand. Above the scene on the left is Athene seated to right, with hair in a knot at the back tied with a double fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, aegis spotted white with snakes in front and radiated border with white zigzags, long chiton and apoptygma with border as the aegis, spear in right hand. Behind her is an Ionic column, round which is a string of large beads ending in tassels. (3.) Above are Anchises and Ascanios departing to right; Anchises is partly bald, with white hair, beard, and eyebrows, bordered embroidered himation over left arm, and staff in left hand; with right hand he leads Ascanios, who has a bordered himation over left arm. Behind them is a laurel-tree, and above are seen the segments of two shields, white with a border of dots. The ground-lines are indicated by white dots. (b) Departure of a warrior (?): In the centre is a beardless warrior to left with right foot raised on a rock, pilos, endromides, bordered himation over left shoulder, and spear in right hand; his left hand rests on his shield, which has a four-spoked wheel as device, with dots round the rim. Facing him is a beardless warrior with pilos slung at back, fillet, chlamys over his arms, endromides, spear in right hand, two fingers of left hand raised, as if addressing the other. Behind on a slightly higher level is a female figure to right with hair in a knot behind, embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma reaching to the hips, sandals, situla in right hand; in left hand she holds out phiale. Behind her hangs an embroidered taenia; above the warriors is seen part of a shield with device of an eight-point star and border of dots, and an open window with double shutter on which are rows of white spots. On the right is a youth seated to right looking, back, with fillet, drapery under him, and spear in left hand; on a higher level is a female figure to right looking back, with hair in a knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma; with right hand she draws forward her drapery from behind. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
5. Other side of Sack of Troy
Other side of Sack of Troy
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding; underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath; at the back of the neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes; above each design on the body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout. On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre is Dionysos moving rapidly to right, looking back; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bordered chlamys over left arm held up in right hand, thyrsos in left. On either side of him is a Maenad moving to right, with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; the one on the left has a thyrsos in right hand and a blazing torch in left; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a radiated ampyx, chiton over left shoulder, and a tympanon in left hand; she looks upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit. On the body: (a) Iliupersis: (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front; the statue looks to right and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs, aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in right hand, shield on left arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to left with face to front, clasping the statue with both hands; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over right shoulder, with apoptygma. On the right stands Ajax to left with right foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over left shoulder confined by a belt with white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in left hand; in right hand is his shield (device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra. Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side. On the right is Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her, right hand raised, left extended. (2.) On the left, the sacrifice of Polyxena is represented. Polyxena is fallen to right at the foot of the statue, clasping it with both arms; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up to carry her off, with left hand extended to seize her; he is beardless, with white pilos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, sword slung at side, long double-pointed spear in right hand. Above the scene on the left is Athene seated to right, with hair in a knot at the back tied with a double fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, aegis spotted white with snakes in front and radiated border with white zigzags, long chiton and apoptygma with border as the aegis, spear in right hand. Behind her is an Ionic column, round which is a string of large beads ending in tassels. (3.) Above are Anchises and Ascanios departing to right; Anchises is partly bald, with white hair, beard, and eyebrows, bordered embroidered himation over left arm, and staff in left hand; with right hand he leads Ascanios, who has a bordered himation over left arm. Behind them is a laurel-tree, and above are seen the segments of two shields, white with a border of dots. The ground-lines are indicated by white dots. (b) Departure of a warrior (?): In the centre is a beardless warrior to left with right foot raised on a rock, pilos, endromides, bordered himation over left shoulder, and spear in right hand; his left hand rests on his shield, which has a four-spoked wheel as device, with dots round the rim. Facing him is a beardless warrior with pilos slung at back, fillet, chlamys over his arms, endromides, spear in right hand, two fingers of left hand raised, as if addressing the other. Behind on a slightly higher level is a female figure to right with hair in a knot behind, embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma reaching to the hips, sandals, situla in right hand; in left hand she holds out phiale. Behind her hangs an embroidered taenia; above the warriors is seen part of a shield with device of an eight-point star and border of dots, and an open window with double shutter on which are rows of white spots. On the right is a youth seated to right looking, back, with fillet, drapery under him, and spear in left hand; on a higher level is a female figure to right looking back, with hair in a knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma; with right hand she draws forward her drapery from behind. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
6. Sack of Troy
Sack of Troy
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding; underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath; at the back of the neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes; above each design on the body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout. On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre is Dionysos moving rapidly to right, looking back; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bordered chlamys over left arm held up in right hand, thyrsos in left. On either side of him is a Maenad moving to right, with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; the one on the left has a thyrsos in right hand and a blazing torch in left; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a radiated ampyx, chiton over left shoulder, and a tympanon in left hand; she looks upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit. On the body: (a) Iliupersis: (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front; the statue looks to right and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs, aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in right hand, shield on left arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to left with face to front, clasping the statue with both hands; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over right shoulder, with apoptygma. On the right stands Ajax to left with right foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over left shoulder confined by a belt with white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in left hand; in right hand is his shield (device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra. Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side. On the right is Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her, right hand raised, left extended. (2.) On the left, the sacrifice of Polyxena is represented. Polyxena is fallen to right at the foot of the statue, clasping it with both arms; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up to carry her off, with left hand extended to seize her; he is beardless, with white pilos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, sword slung at side, long double-pointed spear in right hand. Above the scene on the left is Athene seated to right, with hair in a knot at the back tied with a double fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, aegis spotted white with snakes in front and radiated border with white zigzags, long chiton and apoptygma with border as the aegis, spear in right hand. Behind her is an Ionic column, round which is a string of large beads ending in tassels. (3.) Above are Anchises and Ascanios departing to right; Anchises is partly bald, with white hair, beard, and eyebrows, bordered embroidered himation over left arm, and staff in left hand; with right hand he leads Ascanios, who has a bordered himation over left arm. Behind them is a laurel-tree, and above are seen the segments of two shields, white with a border of dots. The ground-lines are indicated by white dots. (b) Departure of a warrior (?): In the centre is a beardless warrior to left with right foot raised on a rock, pilos, endromides, bordered himation over left shoulder, and spear in right hand; his left hand rests on his shield, which has a four-spoked wheel as device, with dots round the rim. Facing him is a beardless warrior with pilos slung at back, fillet, chlamys over his arms, endromides, spear in right hand, two fingers of left hand raised, as if addressing the other. Behind on a slightly higher level is a female figure to right with hair in a knot behind, embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma reaching to the hips, sandals, situla in right hand; in left hand she holds out phiale. Behind her hangs an embroidered taenia; above the warriors is seen part of a shield with device of an eight-point star and border of dots, and an open window with double shutter on which are rows of white spots. On the right is a youth seated to right looking, back, with fillet, drapery under him, and spear in left hand; on a higher level is a female figure to right looking back, with hair in a knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma; with right hand she draws forward her drapery from behind. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
7. Visitors at Tomb
Visitors at Tomb
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red, white and yellow, on black ground. Holes are pierced in the tops of the handles. Round the lip, each side, egg-moulding; underneath, wave-pattern. On the neck, (a) above, ivy-wreath; below, two lions confronted, each with one paw raised; (b) ivy-wreath and palmettes. Above the design in front, tongue- and egg-patterns; below, all round, maeander and crosses; below the handles, palmettes. The handles terminate below in swans' heads, as before. On the obverse of the medallions are bas-relief groups of a Satyr and a Maenad, in red and white; the Satyr wears a panther's skin, and is dancing to left, playing the double flute and looking back at the Maenad, who is seated to left, and has yellow hair in a knot, long white chiton, and red himation round lower limbs, in left hand a thyrsos, with right she draws forward her drapery; in the background is a tree. (a) Offerings at heroon: The heroon is Ionic distyle, painted white, with anthemia on the pediment and two phialae above; on the base, a band of triglyphs, white on black, and white metopes; beams of interior roof shown in wrong perspective. In it is a figure of a youth (painted white), with face to front, chlamys on left arm, and staff in right hand; he looks down and dips left hand into a large white laver on a fluted stand (hypostaton); inside the heroon hang three phialae. On the left is a youth leaning forward, with left foot raised on a rock and drapery over left arm, about to place a wreath on the base of the heroon. Above him are a youth and a female figure seated side by side to left and conversing, turning to look at each other; the youth has drapery over his lower limbs, and holds up a phiale containing fruit in right hand. His left hand is laid in the lap of the female figure, whose right hand is raised as if speaking; she is seated on a cista ornamented with maeander and lozenge patterns, and has hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with stripe down the side and apoptygma fastened on the shoulders. On the right is a female figure stooping forward to left, and placing on the heroon a large basket ornamented with maeander, wave, and other patterns; she has long curls, and wears radiated ampyx, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and sandals. Above her is a youth seated on a stool to right, looking back, with drapery round left arm and under him, wand in right hand, and pilos held up in left. Below the youths the ground is indicated by lines of dots. (b) Offerings at stele: The stele is a lofty Doric column on three steps, with a white taenia tied round it; on the steps are five taeniae and fruit. On the left is a female figure holding out a wreath to the stele in left hand; her hair is gathered in a knot, and she wears opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with stripe down front, and sandals; with right hand she draws forward her drapery. Above is a youth seated to right, with fillet, and drapery under him, holding out an embroidered taenia in both hands. On the right is a youth seated on raised ground to right, wearing fillet, and bordered himation over lower limbs; in right hand a wand, in left he holds out a phiale with fruit. Facing him, on a higher level, is a female figure holding up a fan in right hand and a pyxis in left; her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton with stripe down side, and sandals. Below on the right are several loose stones; ground-lines indicated by white dots. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
8. Sack of Troy
Sack of Troy
Description
Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding; underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath; at the back of the neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes; above each design on the body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout. On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre is Dionysos moving rapidly to right, looking back; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bordered chlamys over left arm held up in right hand, thyrsos in left. On either side of him is a Maenad moving to right, with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; the one on the left has a thyrsos in right hand and a blazing torch in left; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a radiated ampyx, chiton over left shoulder, and a tympanon in left hand; she looks upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit. On the body: (a) Iliupersis: (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front; the statue looks to right and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs, aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in right hand, shield on left arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to left with face to front, clasping the statue with both hands; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over right shoulder, with apoptygma. On the right stands Ajax to left with right foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over left shoulder confined by a belt with white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in left hand; in right hand is his shield (device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra. Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side. On the right is Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her, right hand raised, left extended. (2.) On the left, the sacrifice of Polyxena is represented. Polyxena is fallen to right at the foot of the statue, clasping it with both arms; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up to carry her off, with left hand extended to seize her; he is beardless, with white pilos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, sword slung at side, long double-pointed spear in right hand. Above the scene on the left is Athene seated to right, with hair in a knot at the back tied with a double fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, aegis spotted white with snakes in front and radiated border with white zigzags, long chiton and apoptygma with border as the aegis, spear in right hand. Behind her is an Ionic column, round which is a string of large beads ending in tassels. (3.) Above are Anchises and Ascanios departing to right; Anchises is partly bald, with white hair, beard, and eyebrows, bordered embroidered himation over left arm, and staff in left hand; with right hand he leads Ascanios, who has a bordered himation over left arm. Behind them is a laurel-tree, and above are seen the segments of two shields, white with a border of dots. The ground-lines are indicated by white dots. (b) Departure of a warrior (?): In the centre is a beardless warrior to left with right foot raised on a rock, pilos, endromides, bordered himation over left shoulder, and spear in right hand; his left hand rests on his shield, which has a four-spoked wheel as device, with dots round the rim. Facing him is a beardless warrior with pilos slung at back, fillet, chlamys over his arms, endromides, spear in right hand, two fingers of left hand raised, as if addressing the other. Behind on a slightly higher level is a female figure to right with hair in a knot behind, embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma reaching to the hips, sandals, situla in right hand; in left hand she holds out phiale. Behind her hangs an embroidered taenia; above the warriors is seen part of a shield with device of an eight-point star and border of dots, and an open window with double shutter on which are rows of white spots. On the right is a youth seated to right looking, back, with fillet, drapery under him, and spear in left hand; on a higher level is a female figure to right looking back, with hair in a knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with apoptygma; with right hand she draws forward her drapery from behind. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
9. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
Description
Pottery: red-figured pelike (jar). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck, (a) palmettes, egg-pattern, and white pendants, (b) laurel-wreath and wave-pattern. Under the handles, palmettes; below, maeander and crosses. (a) Toilet-scene: In the centre is a tall tree with fruit, painted white; below is a female figure seated in a chair to left, with long curls, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation veiling her head, and shoes; in right hand she holds up a mirror. Behind her is a female figure to left, with curly hair tied in a bunch, open embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, and sandals, in right hand a fan; behind her, a ball. On the left is a female figure turned to the front, with long curls, bracelet on right arm, long chiton, himation wrapped round her and drawn over her head, and sandals, in right hand a wreath. The ground-lines are indicated as usual. (b) Ephebos to right, wrapped in a himation, with sandals; facing him is a nude ephebos with left arm muffled in drapery, staff in left hand and strigil in right with which he is about to scrape himself. Behind the latter is an ephebos with himation over left shoulder, and sandals, holding out a phiale. Above, an embroidered taenia and a ball. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
10. Podanipfer
Podanipfer
Description
Pottery: red-figured podanipter (foot-bath). Designs red and white on black ground, with yellow accessories. Round the edge, egg-moulding; between the exterior designs, palmettes and rosettes; below all round, maeander. Vertical handles with knobs on the top and on either side; on the handles, laurel; on the knobs, stars in white. Interior, in a medallion with vine-wreath in white all round: A luxuriant plant with tendrils and flowers; on a large flower in the centre rests a female head turned partly to right, with curly hair, beaded ampyx, earrings, and double necklace. Below, wave-pattern; in the exergue, three rosettes of dots. Exterior: (a) Youth seated to left on rocky ground, with fillet (ends floating), and drapery under him, in right hand a phiale containing flowers and fruit; a laurel-branch leans against his left arm. In front of him is a rosette; ground-lines indicated below him. He looks back at a female figure seated on a rock to left, with hair tied in a bunch, open cap radiated in front, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with looped-up sleeves, himation over lower limbs, and shoes, in right hand a wreath, in left a cista ornamented with chevron pattern; above, two rosettes. (b) Female figure seated on a rock to right, attired as the one on (a); in left hand a cista ornamented with chevron patterns; above her, a star. Before her is a youth as on (a), looking back, in left hand a phiale containing flowers, in right hand a bunch of grapes; against his right arm is a laurel-branch. Above are two rosettes; the ground-lines are indicated. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; 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; Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, London, BMP, 1984
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