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41. Drama Scene

Description: Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and purple. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, wave-pattern; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Scene from a comedy; nocturnal visit of an old man to a hetaera: In the centre above is a window, through which is visible the upper part of the hetaera with face painted white, hair confined under an open purple cap embroidered with beads, and purple embroidered chiton, looking down to left at the old man, with left hand resting on the window-sill. He is bearded, with mask, wreath, short purple chiton, sleeved undergarment with anaxyrides, padded stomach, purple phallos, and white shoes, in left hand a purple taenia; in right he holds up four apples as an offering, while he ascends a ladder resting against the window, grasping it with left hand. On the right is a slave standing on tiptoe to left with upturned face, bearded mask and wreath as the other, short white chiton with purple border, sleeved under-garment with anaxyrides, padded stomach, and purple phallos; in right hand a white situla, in left a wreath and lighted torch. On the ground, an ivy-plant; on either side of the window, a vine-wreath. (b) Two ephebi confronted, wrapped in bordered himatia, with white wreaths and sandals; the one on the left holds out two apples and a taenia to the other, who holds a twig. --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; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926

42. Drama Scene

Description: 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; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926, Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and purple, retouched. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, wave-pattern; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Scene from a comedy: On the left is the youthful Dionysos to right, with long hair, ivy-wreath, dotted taenia tied round head, bordered himation over right leg and left arm, and shoes with white studs, hands extended, left arm leaning on staff; he holds out fruit in left hand to a comic actor who dances before him, as if intoxicated, with right leg uplifted and arms extended. The actor wears a close-fitting garment with sleeves (jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece), with a white stripe down the legs, and over it a short purple chiton with padded stomach, and purple phallos; he has a large nose and wrinkled face, white hair, and pointed beard. On his head he balances a large basket ornamented with zigzags and palmettes, all painted in white outlines; Dionysos raises right hand as if to prevent the basket from falling. (b) Ephebos to right, with wreath, himation, sandals, in one hand a twig, confronting a female figure with wreath, himation, veil over the back of her head, and sandals. --The British Museum

43. Satyr and Dionysus

Description: Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow on both sides. Above the designs, laurel wreath; below, wave-pattern; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Youthful Satyr moving to left, with wreath, bracelets, circlet of beads round left thigh, shoes, fruit in left hand, torch in right, by the light of which he explores the way. He is followed by Dionysos, who is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bracelets, beaded shoulder-belt, circlet of beads round left thigh, shoes, and chlamys with border of dots over left arm and right thigh, in right hand a bunch of grapes (?), in left a thyrsos tied with a taenia; between them hangs a taenia. (b) Two ephebi conversing, with wreaths, himatia, and shoes, staff in hand; the one on the left holds out a string of beads in right hand. --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; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926

44. Achilles and Troilos

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

45. Achilles and Troilos

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

46. Orestes at Delphi

Description: 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, Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, maeander alternating with chequers and crosses; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Purification of Orestes at Delphi: On the left is an Ionic column, indicating the temple, and by it a bucranion with wreath, from which hangs a sacrificial vitta. Orestes to left, beardless, with white pilos at back of neck, and bordered chlamys over left arm, kneels on left knee at the base of the omphalos, clinging to it with left arm, with sword extended in right hand as if to ward off the Furies, and sheath in left; the omphalos is covered with the agrenon. Behind Orestes stands Apollo with two laurel-leaves in right hand, with which he sprinkles the blood over him; he is beardless, with hair in a knot, bordered chlamys and laurel-branch over left arm, in left hand a phiale. On the altar are two large acanthus-leaves; it bears an imitation inscription, apparently modern. (b) Two ephebi conversing, each with staff and himation over left shoulder; between them, a Doric column. --The British Museum

47. Sacrifice

Description: Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Sacrifice. In the centre is a blazing altar, with fuel, in which is a hooked object. On either side is a wreathed youth in an himation engaged in sacrifice; the one on left pours wine on the flames from a footless kylix in his right; the other roasts in the flames a piece of meat on the end of two spits; on the left a youth similarly attired plays on the flutes. On the right a bearded man in an himation, also wreathed, looks on, resting his right on a staff. In the field imitation inscriptions. (b) Two draped ephebi, staff in hand, confronted; between them a third, to left Each wears a fillet. On the foot an incised inscription. Late careless drawing. Purple inscriptions, stems of wreaths, and flames. Brown ties on altar. Below, sets of three maeanders separated by dotted chequer squares. Round the lip, laurel-wreath. Round the handles, egg pattern; below the handles, an ornament composed of two palmettes superimposed. --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