Reveler with lyre
- Title
- Reveler with lyre
- Repository
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Alternative
- Attic Red-Figure Cup Wine Cup with a Singing Reveler Paleothodoros, Dimitris. Epictetos, Collection D'etudes Classiques. (Louvain, Namur, Paris and Dudley, MA: Editions Peeters/Societe Des Etudes Classiques, 2004), vol. 18
- Creator
- Epiktetos
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Epiktetos (Greek vase painter, active ca. 520-490 BCE)
- Description
- 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
- Inscription
- On the tondo, as if from the singer's mouth: ELOI ESE(N) --J. Paul Getty Museum
- View
- Interior
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation) Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection (owner)
- Temporal
- ca. 510 BCE
- Subject
- Epeleios Painter Epiktetos Evaion Painter Pottery V Red Figure Symposium Red Figure, White, Animal
- Style Period
- Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- kylikes
- Date
- -0515/-0505
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06277
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 10
- 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: 7.8 cm; Width (handles): 25.3 cm; Diameter (mouth): 18 to 18.3 cm
- Material
- terracotta
- 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)
- Id Current Repository
- 86.AE.279