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Warrior receiving Armor

Alternative Title
  • Neck-amphora
  • Vase E329
Creator Display
  • attributed to Achilles Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 470-ca. 425 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0445/-0435
Description
  • Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Thetis bringing armour to Achilles. A youth on left, wreathed, with hair looped up and passed over ear, and a mantle in a doubled roll thrown over his left shoulder, holds out his right for a helmet which a woman offers him; she has also a shield with black device of a scorpion to left, and a long spear, and she wears a long chiton, himation, a radiated stephane, and a saccos which has a flap behind the left ear. (b) Bearded man in himation, wearing a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, standing to left, resting right hand on staff. Drawing of the best period. Purple wreath and fillet; brown inner markings. Edge of hair dotted. Eye in profile. Below a, pairs of maeanders set in alternate directions, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key 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; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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  • Back
Temporal
  • ca. 440 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
  • Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Keyword
  • Thetis brings arms
  • Iliad Book 19
  • Iliad II
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted
Measurements
  • Height: 33.02 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_01054
Item Locator
  • Box 3, Section 2
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1856,1226.34
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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