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1. Departure
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- 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, 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 covered kantharos, with closed-in top, at one side of which is an aperture 3.2 cm long by 1.9 cm, communicating with the centre of the bottom by means of a shaft walled off from the interior. The lid is painted black and decorated with concentric mouldings: in its centre is a moulded Gorgon mask (3.2 cm diameter) painted white with black hair and red tongue. (a) Odysseus and Nausicaa. On the left Odysseus, nude, with rough hair and beard, stands as if in astonishment, holding a long beaded fillet (the credemnon) in both hands: he gazes at Nausicaa, who sinks away on the right, looking back at him; she wears a Doric chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is knotted behind with a fillet wound thrice round it. Beside Odysseus is inscribed his name, ΟΔΥΣΕΥΣ, Όδυσεύς. Beside Nausicaa, KAΛΕ, καλή. (b) Oedipus and the Sphinx. On a high rock on the left, drawn in purple outline, the Sphinx is seated to right, her long hair knotted behind with a fillet, which has a vertical piece over the forehead: her fore and hind legs join on to her body like the arms and legs of a woman. In front of her stands Oedipus, beardless, en face, but looking towards her, his left hand on his hip, his right holding two spears: he wears a chlamys, fillet, a petasos hanging at his back, and high endromides. Purple inscriptions, fillet, belt, and rock. Brown markings. Eye in profile. --The British Museum, 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 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
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- Pottery: red-figured stamnos. (a) Departure of a warrior. In the centre a bearded warrior stands en face, with helmet, short chiton, ornamented cuirass, and greaves, sword at waist, shield on arm, and holding a spear upright in left hand; his cuirass is decorated with a star on each shoulder-piece, and a band of key pattern; the strings are fastened upon a stud in the centre of this band, which is formed like an eight-spoked wheel, with dots between the spokes. He looks to left, grasping the hand of a bearded man, in long chiton and mantle, who holds upright in his left hand a staff. On the right, a woman, with bordered Doric chiton with apoptygma undertied, and hair looped up with fillet, stands with a phiale in her left, and an oinochoe hanging at her side in her right hand. Behind the warrior a hound stands in the background to left: around its neck is a collar with bead (?) attached. (b) Similar scene. In the centre, a beardless warrior as in (a), but with his body mostly hidden by his shield (device, a Pegasos springing to left), with helmet tilted back and with a mantle over his arms, stands en face, holding out to left a phiale to be filled from the oinochoe of a woman with Doric chiton schistos, and hair looped up with radiated fillet. On the right stands a bearded man, as in a. Large style. Purple fillets, brown inner markings and edge of hair. Eye in profile. Below, pairs of maeanders separated by dotted cross squares. Above, tongue pattern; round lip, egg pattern. Below and above handles, a pattern of four palmettes. The helmet in both cases overlaps the border. --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 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
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- Pottery: red-figured hydria. Thersites insulting Agamemnon. On the right stands Thersites, an old, bald-headed man with hooked nose and grotesque features, and peculiarly shaped head; he leans on a staff and wears a long chiton and an himation, which is passed over the back of his head. He looks at Agamemnon, who moves away with bearded face to front, carrying his spear sloped over his right shoulder, and shield (device, a lion to left) seen edgewise on his left arm; he wears a broad fillet, short chiton, cuirass, and a mantle hangs over his arms. On the left a bearded figure in a chlamys and a hemispherical helmet (Nestor?), with a spear over his right shoulder, moves away, looking back; the action of his left hand is not certain; he may possibly be touching the arm of Agamemnon. The cuirass of Agamemnon seems to be made in narrow vertical slips overlapping each other, and is decorated with a star on the shoulder-piece. Late stage of good period; drawing careless. Eye in profile. Below, a strip of maeander; above, of alternate palmette and lotus; round lip and handles, 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; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
5. Leave-taking
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- Design red on a black background. 1. Farewell scene: a youthful male figure, attired for the chase, stands before a female figure, who holds out to him in her hand a phiale; she has her hair bound with a opisthosphendone, and wears a talaric chiton with sleeves and a peplos; the youthful male figure wears a petasus hanging at his back, and a chlamys fastened by a perone on the breast; in his right hand he holds two spears; behind him stands a youthful male figure leaning on his staff and advancing his right hand as if conversing; he wears a diadem and a mantle; both males are young and beardless., A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851
6. Hermes
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Anacreon type. A bearded reveller walking to right, wreathed in ivy and playing on the chelys: his head hangs forward to left, with eyes upturned as if partly drunk. The nose is curiously squat and broad, like that of a bearded satyr. His mantle flies back with the motion; and he has a staff under his left shoulder. (b) Ephebos, wreathed, walking to right, holding in his right hand horizontally a crutch staff, and extending his left on a level with his shoulder, holding on the palm upright a kylix: a mantle, rolled up, flies back from both arms. Extremities carefully drawn. Purple wreaths, tuning pegs, and cord of plectrum. Elaborate brown inner markings: the beard and the edge of the hair in a are indicated throughout in carefully traced-brown lines, which are also used for the knuckles of the bent hand and nostril in b and the hair on the cheek. Eye in archaic type, with inner angle open. Edge of hair dotted: and a dotted rosette for the left breast. Below a, a strip, alternate maeander and dotted cross squares: below b, a strip of key 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
7. Warrior
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
8. Departure
- Description
- 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, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
9. Warrior
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
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- Reclining on a couch, an older balding man tilts his head back and sings, accompanying himself on the lyre. Several features of the scene, such as the couch, the pillow, and especially the wreath the man wears, reveal that he is a participant at a symposion or drinking party. Many Greek vases, especially elaborate cups, were designed for use at such parties. Therefore, vase-painters frequently decorated these vessels with scenes of revelry and drinking. The circular area or tondo on the interior of a cup presented problems for Greek vase-painters. It was difficult to fit upright figures in this limited, curving space. Artists devised different solutions for this problem: some drew a line across the circle to create an artificial ground-line for their figures. On this vase, Epiktetos came up with a creative solution. He drew a line across the circle but made it the man's couch, rather than a ground-line. The edge of the man's mantle slipping down behind and below the line, creates the impression of depth and space. Epiktetos also used the circular frame of the tondo as part of the composition: it supports the man's pillow, and he props his foot on it. --J. Paul Getty Museum ; Bareiss Loan Number: S.80.AE.252
