Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology

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1. Mourning
Mourning
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Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
2. Mourning
Mourning
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Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.
3. Top left: archer (Epiktetos)
Top left: archer (Epiktetos)
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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