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1. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

2. Departure

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

3. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

4. Odysseus under the ram

Odysseus under the ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

5. Peleus wrestling with Thetis

Peleus wrestling with Thetis

Description: Pottery lekythos showing Peleus wrestling with Thetis. Black figure on white ground. --The British Museum

6. Six Technique

Description: Pottery lekythos decorated in the Six Technique with Eos and the body of Memnon. --The British Museum

7. Odysseus under Ram

Odysseus under Ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

8. Odysseus under the ram

Odysseus under the ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

9. Achilles and Aias Play

Achilles and Aias Play

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos. Designs: on shoulder, black on red, with purple and white accessories; on body, black on drab, with purple accessories. 1. On the shoulder: A Satyr on all-fours to right, with face to front, pursuing a Maenad, who runs away, looking back at him; she has a long chiton with diploidion, and hair knotted up. In the field, vine-branches, with grapes. 2. On the body: Heroes casting lots at the statue of Athene: In the centre is the statue of Athene to right looking to left, with long hair, high-crested helmet with fillet, long chiton and striped himation, spear in right hand, left raised. Behind her is a table, on either side of which is a bearded warrior crouching down on one knee; the one on the left has a helmet with fillet, short striped chiton, chlamys, greaves, shield and two spears; his right hand is stretched out to the table. The other has long hair with fillet, greaves, Boeotian shield, and spear. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

10. Circe episodes

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

11. Circe episodes

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

12. Odysseus under Ram

Odysseus under Ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

13. Departure

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

14. Eos carrying Memnon (?)

Eos carrying Memnon (?)

Description: Pottery lekythos decorated in the Six Technique with Eos and the body of Memnon. --The British Museum

15. Weighing of Souls

Weighing of Souls

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos: the Weighing of Souls. Design black on drab ground, with purple accessories. On the shoulder, lotus-buds; on the body, above, an ivy-wreath. Contest of Achilles and Memnon (or Hector): On either side is a warrior, bearded and fully armed, thrusting with spear, each having a short chiton with purple spots; the one on the left has a Boeotian shield, the other has the device of a crab (?). In the centre Hermes Pyschopompos to right, bearded, with petasos, short chiton and chlamys, both with purple spots, and endromides, holds out a pair of scales in left hand, each scale containing a small winged male figure, representing the souls of the two heroes. In the field, imitation inscriptions. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

16. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

17. Achilles and Ajax Playing

Achilles and Ajax Playing

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos. Designs: on shoulder, black on red, with purple and white accessories; on body, black on drab, with purple accessories. 1. On the shoulder: A Satyr on all-fours to right, with face to front, pursuing a Maenad, who runs away, looking back at him; she has a long chiton with diploidion, and hair knotted up. In the field, vine-branches, with grapes. 2. On the body: Heroes casting lots at the statue of Athene: In the centre is the statue of Athene to right looking to left, with long hair, high-crested helmet with fillet, long chiton and striped himation, spear in right hand, left raised. Behind her is a table, on either side of which is a bearded warrior crouching down on one knee; the one on the left has a helmet with fillet, short striped chiton, chlamys, greaves, shield and two spears; his right hand is stretched out to the table. The other has long hair with fillet, greaves, Boeotian shield, and spear. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

18. Odysseus and Ram

Odysseus and Ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

19. Odysseus and Ram

Odysseus and Ram

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

20. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

21. Woman engaged in wool working

Woman engaged in wool working

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

22. Wedding Procession

Wedding Procession

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

23. Cithera Player

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

24. Helikon

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

25. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

26. Circe episodes

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

27. Circe episodes

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

28. Circe episodes

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

29. Libation

Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Sacrifice. On the right is an altar of rough outline, as if of hewn stone, from which flames arise. On the left stands a bearded, wreathed man (a priest ?) in an himation, leaning forward against a staff, and holding out in his right over the flames a phiale; in his left he holds a sprig of myrtle, probably for lustration (purification). Above hang a lock of hair and a wreath, probably votive. The vase has received a blow while the clay was soft, which has left a vertical indentation in the centre of the design. Early fine period. Drawing in black outline; hair and staff, black silhouette; dress, pink, with folds in brown. Eye in profile. Above, a strip, closed at each end, of maeander, with two white cross squares, on white. On shoulder, a pattern of five palmettes, black on red. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

30. Libation

Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos: man with sceptre pouring libation before a pipes-player. --The British Museum

31. Achilles and Aias Play

Achilles and Aias Play

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). On the shoulder, palmettes; above the design, network. Two heroes (Achilles and Ajax?) casting lots before the statue of Athene: In the centre is the goddess, on a base of two steps, looking to left, with long hair, high-crested helmet, aegis with snakes in front, long chiton, folds indicated, spear in right hand, left extended. On either side of the base is a hero crouching down on one knee fully armed, with high-crested helmet, ornamented cuirass, that of the one on the right probably of linen, short striped chiton, greaves with incised volutes, and two spears, right hand extended to throw the dice. Behind each is his shield; the one on the left has a tripod as device, the other an ivy-wreath. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851

32. Death of Priam

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask): Death of Priam. --The British Museum

33. Achilles and Aias

Achilles and Aias

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

34. Achilles and Aias

Achilles and Aias

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

35. Achilles and Aias

Achilles and Aias

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

36. Dragging Hektor

Dragging Hektor

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

37. Dragging Hektor

Dragging Hektor

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

38. Dragging Hektor (no body)

Dragging Hektor (no body)

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

39. Dragging Hektor

Dragging Hektor

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

40. Dragging Hektor

Dragging Hektor

Description: Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

41. Mourning

Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil-flask). Offerings at a tomb. In the centre is a broad shaft on a double plinth, surmounted by a double moulding, from the centre of which rises a small tapering stele with a triangular top. Both shaft and stele are encircled with taeniae. On the right of the stele, resting on the shaft, are a large prothesis-vase and an alabastron; on the left an alabastron, beside which hangs in the background a strigil. On each side hangs from the upper border a festooned taenia. In the foreground on the upper plinth is seated to right a woman with arms folded (representing the deceased), looking round to left; she wears a long chiton, himation around her legs, sandals, and a necklace of beads. On right a woman in a long chiton advances, holding in her left a basket containing taeniae, and with her right places on the upper plinth a large lekythos which she holds by the lip. On left, a figure, the drawing of whose body is almost entirely worn away, is seated on a tumulus on raised ground, with left hand on knees, and feet resting on the lower plinth. Late fine style. Red outline, hair in red wash with details red; chiton on left, border of himation in centre, and taeniae, red silhouette; prothesis-vase, shoulder and foot of lekythos, and some of the taeniae, black; himation in centre blue; chiton on right and some of the taeniae, green; necklace, orange-yellow. Most of the colour was added after firing, and much of it has not survived. The two faces which are preserved are in three-quarter face, and the lower eyelashes are drawn in. Above, the usual ornaments, black on a white ground; the alternate petals of the palmettes are red. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

42. Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

43. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

44. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

45. Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

46. Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Menelaos, Helen, Aphrodite

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

47. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

48. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

49. Warrior carried by Thanatos and Hypnos

Warrior carried by Thanatos and Hypnos

Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) (?) bringing dead warrior to tomb. The tomb is in the form of a plain stele on a double plinth, decorated with numerous taeniae, and surmounted by a double projecting moulding. About one quarter of the way down from the top is a band of egg pattern, above which is painted a helmet with long hanging crest to right, the eye-holes filled in with red. The body of the warrior is about to be laid, with feet to left, on the upper plinth it has a cuirass, and a mantle is rolled up over the arms; the head, which is beardless, is held by a youthful winged figure (Hypnos), who places his hand under the warrior's arms, resting the head against his breast. A bearded winged figure (Thanatos) bends forward, supporting with his left the thighs, with his right the lower part of the legs; the beard of this figure is shaggy and the hair straight; on his body are markings in red, as if of plumage. Drawing of good period. Brown outline throughout, except wings, which are in black outline; hair in black or brown strokes on brown wash; body of Hypnos, thinned red wash; taeniae and mantle of warrior red with black folds. Eye in profile. Usual patterns. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893

50. Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Woman

Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Woman

Description: Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) (?) bringing dead warrior to tomb. The tomb is in the form of a plain stele on a double plinth, decorated with numerous taeniae, and surmounted by a double projecting moulding. About one quarter of the way down from the top is a band of egg pattern, above which is painted a helmet with long hanging crest to right, the eye-holes filled in with red. The body of the warrior is about to be laid, with feet to left, on the upper plinth it has a cuirass, and a mantle is rolled up over the arms; the head, which is beardless, is held by a youthful winged figure (Hypnos), who places his hand under the warrior's arms, resting the head against his breast. A bearded winged figure (Thanatos) bends forward, supporting with his left the thighs, with his right the lower part of the legs; the beard of this figure is shaggy and the hair straight; on his body are markings in red, as if of plumage. Drawing of good period. Brown outline throughout, except wings, which are in black outline; hair in black or brown strokes on brown wash; body of Hypnos, thinned red wash; taeniae and mantle of warrior red with black folds. Eye in profile. Usual patterns. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893