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Iris stopping Achilles

Alternative Title
  • Amphora
Creator Display
  • attributed to Priam Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 530-510 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0520/-0510
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured amphora : the dragging of Hektor; Achilles drags Hektor's corpse around Patroklos' tomb. On the right is the white tomb mound with Patroklos' armed soul above. In the centre is the winged messenger-goddess, who has come to put a stop to Achilles' treatment of the corpse. --The British Museum
  • Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
View
  • Front; Detail
Temporal
  • ca. 520-510 BCE
Coverage
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (site)
Keyword
  • Dragging Hektor
  • Iliad II
  • Books 22-24
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 50.5 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_01334
Item Locator
  • Box 3, Section 25
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1899,0721.3
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
Collections

APA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. (19 Apr 2024). Iris stopping Achilles Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df693637k

MLA

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Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Iris stopping Achilles" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-19. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df693637k

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Priam Painter http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500059768
2 Lowenstam, Steven http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82014350
3 amphorae (storage vessels) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300148696
4 Attic (culture) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386850
5 Archaic (Greek culture or period) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020086
6 Black-figure http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020195
7 Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020118
8 British Museum http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500125180
9 Steven Lowenstam Collection http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/StevenLowenstamCollection
10 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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