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1. Linear B Script
Linear B Script
Description
Clay tablet inscribed with Linear B script, recording offerings of oil to a number of religious personnel and deities. --The British Museum, Ventris, M; Chadwick, J, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1956; Chadwick, J; Godart, L; Killen, J T; Olivier, J-P; Sacconi, A; Sakellarakis, I A, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, I, I, Cambridge/Rome, Cambridge University Press/Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986
2. Music lesson
Music lesson
Description
Pottery: red-figured hydria. On shoulder: Music lesson. In centre, a group of wreathed, bearded man (instructor) seated on chair to right playing chelys, confronted by boy seated on diphros playing chelys; each chelys has a taenia attached. Beneath the chair a dog lies to left looking round, wearing a collar. On right an ephebos moves away, looking back, holding out in right a spotted sybene and glottocomeion. On extreme right an ephebos sits to left in a chair, closely muffled in himation, his left foot raised in air beneath the chair; above, KAΛΟΣ, καλός. Behind the instructor a wreathed youth stands to right holding a chelys. On left a bearded man (a paidagogos?) stands to left with right resting on a stele, but turns to right, holding up in left a cord attached to the collar of a young panther (?). The stele is decorated at the upper edge with a row of upright strokes, and has written on it, letters horizontal but in a column (kionedon), KAΛΟΣ, καλός. All the figures are wreathed, excepting the youth on the diphros and the paidagogos, who wear fillets: all are draped in himation. Beside the instructor on the right hang a pair of tablets wound round with a cord. Purple wreaths, fillets, cords, and inscriptions (except that on stele). Light brown hair of youth playing lyre, collars of dog and cat. Eye in transition type, disc against open angle. Borders of panel: below, red strip; above, linked lotus buds; on each side, net pattern. Below scene, a broad strip of linked lotus buds, joining handles. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
3. Iliad A
Iliad A
Description
Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
4. Rhapsode
Rhapsode
Description
Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora (storage-jar), with twisted handles. (a) Victorious poet reciting. On a plinth or bema, on which is inscribed KAΛΟNEI, καλος εΐ, a bearded, wreathed man in an himation which leaves his right shoulder free stands to right, resting his extended right hand on a knotted staff. From his open mouth proceed the first words of a metrical poem. (See Inscription). (b) Flute-player: perhaps the accompanist of the poet in a. He stands on a smaller plinth to right playing on the flutes, which are attached by a phorbeia which has a broad band over the cheeks, to which are fastened two smaller bands by small rings, passing at the back of and over the head. He is wreathed, and has light hair on his cheeks: he wears a long sleeved chiton decorated with a band of pattern above the ankles, which flies back in wavy folds as if he were moving forward, shoes, and a short, fringed tunic of some thick material, decorated with a large chequer pattern. The chequers on the left shoulder are not filled in. Purple inscriptions in field, and wreaths. Brown inscriptions on plinth, hair on cheek, moustache, upper folds of chiton and shading on lower part of chiton in b, and inner markings, including even the muscles on the back of the flute-player's hands. The edge of the hair against the flesh has a row of minute brown dots: in b it has two parallel rows of raised black dots over the forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open and pupil close against it). Below each side, a strip of alternate maeanders with red cross squares and black squares. --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
5. Rhapsode
Rhapsode
Description
Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora (storage-jar), with twisted handles. (a) Victorious poet reciting. On a plinth or bema, on which is inscribed KAΛΟNEI, καλος εΐ, a bearded, wreathed man in an himation which leaves his right shoulder free stands to right, resting his extended right hand on a knotted staff. From his open mouth proceed the first words of a metrical poem. (See Inscription). (b) Flute-player: perhaps the accompanist of the poet in a. He stands on a smaller plinth to right playing on the flutes, which are attached by a phorbeia which has a broad band over the cheeks, to which are fastened two smaller bands by small rings, passing at the back of and over the head. He is wreathed, and has light hair on his cheeks: he wears a long sleeved chiton decorated with a band of pattern above the ankles, which flies back in wavy folds as if he were moving forward, shoes, and a short, fringed tunic of some thick material, decorated with a large chequer pattern. The chequers on the left shoulder are not filled in. Purple inscriptions in field, and wreaths. Brown inscriptions on plinth, hair on cheek, moustache, upper folds of chiton and shading on lower part of chiton in b, and inner markings, including even the muscles on the back of the flute-player's hands. The edge of the hair against the flesh has a row of minute brown dots: in b it has two parallel rows of raised black dots over the forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open and pupil close against it). Below each side, a strip of alternate maeanders with red cross squares and black squares. --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