Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology

Departure

Title
Departure
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Lekythos Vase E575
Creator
unknown
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Description
Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Woman pouring wine for a warrior. On the right stands a bearded warrior en face, with left foot turned to right, with short tied chiton, mantle over shoulders, helmet with raised cheek-pieces, greaves, spear held upright in right, and shield (device, an ithyphallic satyr standing to left with right leg advanced, body thrown back, right hand on hip, blowing a long trumpet; in black silhouette, resting on a thin black ground-line). From the shield hangs an apron attached to the rim by three black studs, with a border of zigzags between them; the lower edge is fringed with tabs in form of spear-heads; above this is an embattled line, and then a large human left eye and eyebrow, with eyelashes above and below, indicated in thinned black. The warrior looks to left at a woman in long Ionic chiton and mantle, hair looped up with fillet, who offers him with her right a phiale filled from an oinochoe in her left hand. Late stage of large style. Brown inner markings and edge of hair. Below and above, maeander. On shoulder, central inverted palmette with two side palmettes and two flowers (partly broken away); round neck, egg pattern. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
View
Front
Coverage
Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Gela, Sicily, Italy (discovery)
Temporal
ca. 470 BCE
Subject
Book 6 Parallels Iliad Book 2-16
Style Period
Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
lekythoi
Date
-0475/-0465
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_00520
Item Locator
Box 2, Section 6
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: 39.37 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
Attic (culture)
Id Current Repository
1863,0728.97