Ge Kourotrophos with Dionysus, Hermes, and youth
- Title
- Ge Kourotrophos with Dionysus, Hermes, and youth
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Amphora Old Catalogue 578 Vase B168
- Creator
- Towry Whyte Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Towry Whyte Painter (Greek vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs black on red panels, having accessories of purple and white, and bands of lotus and honeysuckle patterns interlacing along the top. (a) Leto with the infants Apollo and Artemis in her arms: On the left, Hermes to right, bearded, with petasos, short chiton, and embroidered chlamys, caduceus in right hand, left raised. Next, Dionysos to right, bearded, with long hair, ivy-wreath, long chiton with purple spots, and purple and black himation with rosettes, in right hand a vine-branch with three clusters of grapes, in left a keras; next to him is Leto to right, looking back at him, with long tresses, fillet, and long embroidered chiton, with diploidion; in her arms are the infant Apollo (in the left) and Artemis (in the right), the latter in a short chiton, flesh painted black. On right is a youthful Satyr (?) to left, with ivy-wreath, and an ivy-branch in right hand. (b) Four Satyrs: In the centre, one with long hair rides on a goat, left hand holding its horns, in right hand an ivy-branch. Behind is a Satyr with fillet, belabouring the goat with open right hand; behind him another, to right, dancing, with left hand raised. In front of the goat is a fourth Satyr to left, carrying an askos on his shoulder. --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
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 520 BCE
- Subject
- Black Figure Black Figure Gods Pottery III
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- hydriae
- Date
- -0525/-0515
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_05636
- Item Locator
- Box 12, Section 22
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 41.91 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted; incised
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1836,0224.42