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241. Reveller
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Anacreon type. A bearded reveller walking to right, wreathed in ivy and playing on the chelys: his head hangs forward to left, with eyes upturned as if partly drunk. The nose is curiously squat and broad, like that of a bearded satyr. His mantle flies back with the motion; and he has a staff under his left shoulder. (b) Ephebos, wreathed, walking to right, holding in his right hand horizontally a crutch staff, and extending his left on a level with his shoulder, holding on the palm upright a kylix: a mantle, rolled up, flies back from both arms. Extremities carefully drawn. Purple wreaths, tuning pegs, and cord of plectrum. Elaborate brown inner markings: the beard and the edge of the hair in a are indicated throughout in carefully traced-brown lines, which are also used for the knuckles of the bent hand and nostril in b and the hair on the cheek. Eye in archaic type, with inner angle open. Edge of hair dotted: and a dotted rosette for the left breast. Below a, a strip, alternate maeander and dotted cross squares: below b, a strip of key pattern. --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
- Description
- Bilingual' pottery amphora. Designs in two panels, with borders of double honeysuckle above: (a) Black on red ground, with purple accessories and finely-incised lines; (b) Red on black ground, with purple accessories, and network borders down the sides in black on red. On the sides of the handles, ivy-wreaths; below the handles, palmettes with volutes; all black on red. (a) Achilles and Ajax (?) playing with pessi: On the right is Achilles seated, bearded, with hair rolled up under fillet, high-crested helmet short chiton richly diapered, cuirass, parameiridia, and greaves, all ornamented with volutes, and chlamys richly embroidered with stars and other patterns, in left hand two spears, behind him a Boeotian shield decorated with Satyric mask with short curls and protruding tongue. On the left is Ajax, seated, similarly attired and equipped; each stretches out right hand to a table between them, on which six pessi are visible; Achilles holds another between his fingers. (b) Heracles and the Nemean lion: He is nude and bearded, with curly hair and fillet, and kneels on both knees, holding the lion head downwards over his left shoulder, right hand grasping its forepaws, while its hind-claws are inserted in his right shoulder; he is about to fling it on the ground with his left arm. On the left is Athene to right, with long tresses, high-crested helmet with fillet, ornamented with volutes, and chevron-pattern round crest, aegis with scales, and fringe of snakes in front, long diapered chiton, in right hand a spear, left extended to Heracles. On the right is Iolaos to right, looking back, nude and bearded, with curly hair and fillet, sword at side, in right hand Heracles' club. --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
243. Bilingual
- 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
244. Bilingual
- 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
- Description
- In top-left is a Red-figure Plate, Vase E135 by Epiktetos, created ca. 520-510 BCE and measuring 19.5 cm in diameter and 1.905 cm in height. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1837,0609.59. Athenian red-figured plate: a single figure in oriental costume - trousers ('anaxyrides'), tight-fitting sleeved coat ('kandys') and soft skin hat ('kidaris') with long ear-flaps hanging down - fills the circular field of this plate. This outfit, which resembles the Median costume, was most commonly used in Athenian art for Scythians, but since the figure is not bearded, it is most likely in this case to be intended to depict an Amazon archer. Later representations of Persians, Scythians and Amazons lose much of their individual identity. She draws an arrow from her quiver (here a 'gorytos') as she turns back to shoot at the enemy, her composite bow at the ready in her left hand. Signed by Epiktetos as painter.--The British Museum; In top-right is a Black-figure Pinax, Vase B591 attributed to Psiax, created ca. 520-500 BCE, and measuring 19.05 cm in diameter. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.941. Pottery: black-figured pinax (plate). Late style; occasional accessories of white and purple. An archer to left, beardless, with hair curly in front, earrings, high peaked cap, and jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece, stippled all over, with a guilloche pattern down the legs; at his side, his bow and quiver, the latter ornamented with guilloche pattern, with open lid in the form of a wing; he is blowing a trumpet (salpinx) with a phorbeia (chinstrap).--The British Museum (top right); In bottom right is a Black-figure Pinax, Old Catalogue 698, Vase B589 attributed to Psiax, created ca. 520-500 BCE, and measuring 21.59 cm in diameter. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1837,0609.31., Beazley, J D, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963; Curtis, J E; Tallis, N, Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia, London, BMP, 2005; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Allen, Lindsay, The Persian Empire: A History, London, BMP, 2005
246. Departure of Theseus
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured amphora type B. (a) The Recognition of Theseus. Theseus, a beardless wreathed youth in a short undertied chiton, a mantle over his shoulders, petasos at back, sword hanging at side, and high endromides, stands en face, looking to left, holding two spears upright in his left hand. His right is grasped by Aegeus, an old man with white hair and beard, mantle and shoes, who leans forward on a staff, holding out in his left hand a rolled up band. Between these two figures Aithra stands to right, touching with finger-tips of both hands extended the chin of Theseus: she wears a long chiton untied, a mantle over her shoulders, earrings with triple pendants, and a radiated stephane. Behind Theseus on the right stands Pittheus, bearded, wreathed and draped in a mantle, and holding upright in his right his trident, of which the prongs are cut off by the border of the design: his long hair is looped up, and a single tress (parotis) falls beside the ear. (b) Nike offering phiale to a youth. The youth, who stands en face in the centre, is attired as Theseus in a, but has a chlamys fastened with a brooch on right shoulder, instead of chiton and mantle, and a fillet instead of a wreath; his long hair is fastened in a horizontal plait along his neck, with a single parotis: he holds two spears upright in his right; he looks to right at Nike, who also stands en face, but looks at him, holding upon her right palm, on a level with her eyes, a large phiale: with her left she lifts the skirt of her drapery: she wears a long sleeved chiton with apoptygma and cross-belts (stethodesma), earrings with triple pendant, and a curiously formed stephane: her hair hangs loose, and has the ends fastened in a club with a fillet. On the left stands a bearded man, holding in his left a staff, closely draped in an himation out of which his right hand projects, with fingers extended, beside his chest: his head is bald in a Λ-shaped patch over each temple, and he wears a fillet with a straight piece over the forehead. Fine style, with traces of archaism. Purple fillets. White is used for the hair of Aegeus, and thinned brown laid on it for his fillet. Brown inner markings, cord of petasos, and hair on Theseus' cheek. Eye in profile. The locks at the edge of Theseus' hair are drawn in black outline filled in with brown. The design curves up over the shoulder, and is enclosed in a panel each side, as follows: below, key pattern: above, linked lotus: at sides, net. Round the lowest part of the body, a band of black rays on red. A thin purple line runs round the vase below the designs and around the neck. --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
247. Departure of Theseus
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- Pottery: red-figured amphora type B. (a) The Recognition of Theseus. Theseus, a beardless wreathed youth in a short undertied chiton, a mantle over his shoulders, petasos at back, sword hanging at side, and high endromides, stands en face, looking to left, holding two spears upright in his left hand. His right is grasped by Aegeus, an old man with white hair and beard, mantle and shoes, who leans forward on a staff, holding out in his left hand a rolled up band. Between these two figures Aithra stands to right, touching with finger-tips of both hands extended the chin of Theseus: she wears a long chiton untied, a mantle over her shoulders, earrings with triple pendants, and a radiated stephane. Behind Theseus on the right stands Pittheus, bearded, wreathed and draped in a mantle, and holding upright in his right his trident, of which the prongs are cut off by the border of the design: his long hair is looped up, and a single tress (parotis) falls beside the ear. (b) Nike offering phiale to a youth. The youth, who stands en face in the centre, is attired as Theseus in a, but has a chlamys fastened with a brooch on right shoulder, instead of chiton and mantle, and a fillet instead of a wreath; his long hair is fastened in a horizontal plait along his neck, with a single parotis: he holds two spears upright in his right; he looks to right at Nike, who also stands en face, but looks at him, holding upon her right palm, on a level with her eyes, a large phiale: with her left she lifts the skirt of her drapery: she wears a long sleeved chiton with apoptygma and cross-belts (stethodesma), earrings with triple pendant, and a curiously formed stephane: her hair hangs loose, and has the ends fastened in a club with a fillet. On the left stands a bearded man, holding in his left a staff, closely draped in an himation out of which his right hand projects, with fingers extended, beside his chest: his head is bald in a Λ-shaped patch over each temple, and he wears a fillet with a straight piece over the forehead. Fine style, with traces of archaism. Purple fillets. White is used for the hair of Aegeus, and thinned brown laid on it for his fillet. Brown inner markings, cord of petasos, and hair on Theseus' cheek. Eye in profile. The locks at the edge of Theseus' hair are drawn in black outline filled in with brown. The design curves up over the shoulder, and is enclosed in a panel each side, as follows: below, key pattern: above, linked lotus: at sides, net. Round the lowest part of the body, a band of black rays on red. A thin purple line runs round the vase below the designs and around the neck. --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
248. Nereides Bring Arms
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- Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Thetis and a Nereid bringing arms, made by Hephaistos, to Achilles who mourns Patroclus. In the centre Achilles is seated in a chair to left in a dejected attitude, closely wrapped in his mantle, which is passed over the back of his head; he holds on his left arm a knotted staff, and wears a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, and sandals; on the chair is a fringed and embroidered cloth; beside his head, KAΛΟΣ, καλός. Thetis, approaching from left, has thrown her arms around his neck; she wears an Ionic chiton with dotted sleeves and embroidered diploidion, bracelets, and earrings, and her hair is looped up with a radiated stephane. Behind her a Nereid stands (similar dress, large brooch fastening diploidion on right shoulder, saccos with crosses, dotted fillet, bracelets), holding a spear and a high crested helmet. On left is Athene, who from the gesture of her right appears to be speaking. She carries a spear on her left arm and wears an Ionic chiton, tied, and a himation over her shoulders, aegis with scaly surface reaching to below waist, bracelets, and a helmet with raised cheek-pieces. The cheek-pieces of this helmet are decorated with a snake moving upwards; those of the other helmet have scale pattern; and in both the crest is supported by the arched back of a snake, whose head and tail project in front and at back. On right of Achilles a woman stands to front, holding the shield which Thetis has brought (device, in silhouette, a woman to front in chiton with apoptygma, looking to left, and holding at full extent of both arms a festooned taenia); she covers her face with her right at the sight of the goddesses. She wears sleeved chiton, himation, bracelets and earrings, and an opisthosphendone. On right stands a bearded old man looking on, leaning on his staff, draped in a mantle. The earrings have triple pendants. (b) Nereids with arms, and a Greek. The Greek, wreathed, stands to left with right resting on spear, closely draped in a mantle, which passes over the back of his head. Facing him are two Nereids, one holding a cuirass (side view), the other, holding a sword in her right (the scabbard decorated with zigzags), raises with her left the edge of her chiton; the alternate flaps of the cuirass and the chape of the scabbard are black. On right a third Nereid stands to left, holding up in her right a helmet of different form; in her left a sword, hanging by its belt, drawn entirely in silhouette, and against her left arm a spear; all three wear sleeved chiton and himation; the one on left wears a radiated fillet, the next one a dotted saccos and bracelets, and the one on right a radiated fillet and bracelets. On right ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός. Beneath the handle on left of a, an altar in form of an Ionic capital, with volutes and necking. Beneath the other handle, a square base, on which is a helmet to left, the crest ornamented with a snake in light brown. Purple fillets, inscriptions, and wreaths in b. Brown upper folds of chiton of Thetis and of two Nereids. The hair and beard of the old man and his fillet are indicated in brown outline; the hair of Achilles, in single wavy brown lines. Eye in transition type. Below, a continuous band of key pattern; above each side, a strip of linked lotus buds. On the lower part of each handle, an inverted palmette. Around the neck, and below the design, a thin line of purple. The spears overlap the border. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
249. Peleus and Thetis
- Description
- Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.