Bilingual
- Title
- Bilingual
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Eye cup Old Catalogue 814 Vase E3
- Creator
- Epiktetos
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Epiktetos (Greek vase painter, active ca. 520-490 BCE); Hischylos (Greek potter, active ca. 530 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette. Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right. Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right. (b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back. --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
- Inscription
- Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Content: Interior: Іσχυλος έποίησεν. Exterior (a): EΠIKTETOΣ, Επίκτητος. Exterior (b): ΕΛΠΑΣΘΕΝ (sic) έypa(φσ)ev. --The British Museum
- View
- Side
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
- ca. 520-500 BCE
- Subject
- Andokides, Lysippides Other--Bilingual Pottery IV Black Figure, Red Figure
- Style Period
- Red-figure Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- eye cups (kyelikes)
- Date
- -0520/-0500
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_05802
- Item Locator
- Box 13, Section 9
- 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: 13.97 cm Diameter: 30.48 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)
- Id Current Repository
- 1842,0407.23