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11. Departure
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- 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
12. Athena
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Hermes, bearded, wreathed, with hair in long single tresses, short sleeved chiton, chlamys, petasos at back, endromides of skin (surface covered with minute dots) with crescent-form flaps, moves to right looking back, extending to right his left hand, holding caduceus, with index finger extended, apparently beckoning. (b) Athene in long sleeved chiton, mantle fastened on left shoulder and hanging in pteryges, aegis with fringe of spiral snakes on lower edge, and dotted surface, bracelets, her hair hanging loose with a fillet wound twice round it, holding spear across her body in left, and extending a high crested helmet held by cheek-piece in right, moves to left, looking back; her left foot in foreshortening, her body en face. The aegis is short in front, but at the back hangs down below the waist. Late stage of large severe style. Purple wreath, cord of petasos, and bracelets. Brown inner details, upper folds of chiton, necklace, and hair over forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open). Below each side, a strip of pattern, pairs of maeanders set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares. At lower insertion of handles, egg 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
13. Warrior
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- Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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
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- Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
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- 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
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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
17. Suicide of Ajax
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- Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; Etruscan style. Below the designs, palmettos. (a) Suicide of Ajax (Aivas): Ajax, nude and bearded, wearing a wreath, is fallen on his knees to left over his sword, which comes out through his body by his left shoulder; blood is visible round the wound and the handle of the sword. On the left is his shield; above, a garment with border of dots suspended on two pegs. On the right are a large sheath suspended by a white band, a tree-stump, and a garment suspended on two pegs. The scene takes place in Ajax's tent; the ground is indicated below. Above Ajax is painted a retrograde inscription in white. (b) Actaeon devoured by his hounds: Actaeon is nude and bearded, with wreath and white endromides; he moves away to right, turning back and endeavouring to drive back the hounds with a crook held in right hand; two attack him on either side, and one seizes his right thigh in his teeth. Below him is inscribed as before, in Etruscan characters: NVIATA, ‘Α(κ)ταίων. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
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- Pottery: red-figured stamnos. (a) Judgment of Paris. Beneath the left handle of the vase a rough irregular mass of the same height as the figures is left red, and marked with brown brush-marks, indicating Mount Ida. At the foot of it a ram stands to right. Towards this, Paris, a wreathed youth in bordered himation, with chelys in left hand and right hand pressed to side, moves rapidly; he turns to look at Hermes, who strides forward and seizes him by the right shoulder, touching his back with the caduceus, of which the spiked butt-end only is seen; Hermes is bearded and wreathed, and has long hair looped up behind, with one hanging lock (parotis), a short chiton, bordered chlamys, petasos hanging at his back, and talaria laced and winged; on the heel of each is a dotted circle. Behind him come the goddesses; first, Hera, wearing sleeved chiton, a mantle fastened on her left shoulder, on her head a calathos decorated with four horizontal patterns: she carries her sceptre (the ends not shown) on her left arm, and raises her open right with a gesture of encouragement to Paris. Next, Athene, in long chiton with apoptygma, mantle, aegis dotted, with fringe of snakes, and dotted taenia tied in a bow at the back of her head; her long hair hangs loose like that of Hera, but the ends are passed through a knotted cloth (?); she carries her spear horizontally in her left; her right hand, passing across her body, is missing; she turns to look at Aphrodite, whose body is cut in two by the space left under the handle; she wears a long sleeved chiton, a mantle, and a radiated stephane, and holds up in her right a flower towards her face. Her long hair hangs loose down her back. (b) Poseidon, Nike and Dionysos. Poseidon on the left, with a long sleeved chiton and mantle, long beard and hair falling to his shoulders, holding dolphin in left and a long trident resting against his left shoulder, holds out in his right a phiale to be filled by Nike, who moves towards him, holding up an oinochoe in her right; in her left hand is a circular disk, shaded in thinned brown (probably a phiale). Her wings are spread on each side, and she has a long Ionic chiton with apoptygma, undertied, a necklace with cruciform pendant, and a fillet looping up her hair behind. On the right Dionysos, bearded, wreathed with ivy, with long wavy hair, long sleeved chiton and mantle, moves away to right, looking back; on his left arm he holds a thyrsos, in his left hand a cantharos (part destroyed) which he carries by one handle in a horizontal position. Dionysos and Poseidon have the lips parted, as if they were speaking. The design curves up over the shoulder. Later stage of large style. Purple wreaths, fillet of Nike, and flower of Aphrodite. Brown inner markings, and shading of Mount Ida: the sheep is sketched in the roughest manner in thinned black. The hair of Hera and Athene is drawn in long wavy lines of thinned black. Eye in transition type (three varieties of form). Below, pairs of maeander set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares and red cross squares, with inner cross of dots; on shoulder, tongue; around lip, egg 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
19. Singer
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- 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
20. Symposium
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- Pottery: red-figured column-krater. (a) Symposion. Two bearded men recline to left on two couches, leaning left arm on striped cushions; the one on the right has a broad radiated band (ampyx?) tied in a bow behind the ear, with end hanging down; he raises on his right a phiale, addressing his companion, who turns towards him, holding up in his right by the stem a large kylix; this one is wreathed, and has his left arm wrapped in his mantle; both have the legs draped. In the foreground between the two a flute-player stands, to right, playing on flutes; she wears a long chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is looped up with a radiated fillet. In the background hang a taenia (on left) and a ring-shaped object (wreath ?). In front of each couch is a table, on which is a dish with flowers. (b) Three draped ephebi. The one on left moves away to left, looking back at the other two; his right arm projects over the border of the design. The central one holds a staff. In the field hangs a pair of halteres (jumping-weights). Style late and careless. Yellowish-white is used for wreath and fillet of flute-player and flowers. Round the lip, in black silhouette on red, two pairs of animals, a lion and boar, stepping towards each other. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893