Paris comes to abduct Helen as Aphrodite and Eros watch
- Title
- Paris comes to abduct Helen as Aphrodite and Eros watch
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Situla
- Creator
- Parrish Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Parrish Painter (Greek vase painter, active in Campania)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured situla (bucket) with Paris coming to abduct Helen, as Aphrodite and Eros watch. On the reverse are five men, perhaps competitors in a torch race. --The British Museum Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Campania, Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- ca. 350-320 BCE
- Subject
- Embassy for Helen Helen and Paris Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
- Red-figure Campanian (pottery style)
- Work Type
- situlae
- Date
- -0355/-0315
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00161
- Item Locator
- Box 1, 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: 27.8 cm Diameter: 28.3 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- Campanian (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1928,0719.3