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Fight

Alternative Title
  • Band cup
  • Vase B400
Creator Display
  • Glaukytes (Attic vase potter); Archikles (Attic vase painter)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0555/-0545
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured band-cup. Finely executed; purple accessories only. Exterior: Two friezes with combat of warriors: (a) On the left, a quadriga at full speed to right, the charioteer beardless, with long hair, long chiton and cuirass, goad in right hand, reins in left. By his side is a fully-armed warrior to right pursuing another, who retreats and turns back to thrust at him with his spear; the latter has a shield. Beneath the horses is a warrior fallen on his face to right, bearded, and fully armed, his shield by his side. Next to right, two fully-armed warriors, one wearing a chlamys and short embroidered chiton, thrust with their spears at a warrior with high-crested helmet, greaves, and shield with a purple pellet, who is beaten down on his knees to left. Behind him is a warrior fully armed, with short diapered chiton, retreating to right and looking back. Next, a combat of two warriors over a fallen one; the one on the left is bearded and fully armed, with a Boeotian shield covered with scales; he thrusts with spear at the other, who is fully armed, his shield painted purple; he is bending over the fallen one, who is bearded and fully armed, and lies on his back, holding his shield. Next is a quadriga at full speed to right, in which is a bearded warrior, fully armed, attacked by a similar warrior, whose cuirass is covered with scales; the right-hand horse has fallen wounded on his back. Next, a combat of three fully-armed warriors over a fallen one; two on the left (one in a high-crested helmet and short diapered chiton, the other with long hair) thrust with their spears; the fallen warrior is fully armed, and looks up at them; he is defended by the other, who is also fully armed, with short diapered chiton and a sword. Next is a quadriga at full speed to left, the charioteer bearded, with long chiton and a Boeotian shield. At the further side of the horses a bearded fully-armed warrior to right pursues a similar one, who retreats brandishing his spear; the former has a Boeotian shield. Behind the charioteer is a fully-armed warrior retreating to right, and turning back to hurl his spear. (b) On the left, two warriors to right, bearded, each wearing pilos and greaves; one has long hair, a cuirass, spear and shield with the device of a bearded face to left, the other has a short embroidered chiton. In front of them is a mounted warrior galloping to right, bearded, with pilos, chlamys and short chiton, and spear, leading a second horse. Before him is a warrior falling forward to right, bearded and fully armed, with high-crested helmet, short purple chiton, spear, and Boeotian shield; he is defended by a similar warrior advancing to left, with shield and spear. Next is a quadriga at full speed to left, the charioteer beardless, with long chiton, and goad in right hand; at the further side of the horses is a fully-armed warrior to right, thrusting with his spear at another, who retreats looking back at him. Next, a combat of two pairs of fully-armed warriors; one on the left has a short embroidered chiton, one on the right has the forepart of a boar to left as device on his shield; between them is a warrior, as before, fallen on his back to left. Next, a quadriga at full speed to right, the charioteer bearded, with petasos, long chiton, and Boeotian shield; by its side is a warrior with long hair and a scaly Boeotian shield, in combat with another in a short embroidered chiton and scaly cuirass; both are fully armed. Next, a fully-armed warrior to right, bearded, with scaly Boeotian shield, has beaten down another on one knee to right; the latter has a high-crested helmet, and looks back at him; he is defended by two fully-armed warriors. On the right is a nude youth on horseback, galloping to left, with a spear, at his further side a second horse; behind him, a warrior to left, fully armed, thrusting with his spear. Under one handle, 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; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926
View
  • Front
Temporal
  • ca. 550 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Inscription
  • Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Script: Greek Inscription Position: Under handles Inscription Language: Greek Inscription Content: HIΠOKPITOΣ KAΛIΣTOΣ, Ίππόκριτος κάλλιστος; ΓΛAYKYTEΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ, Γλανκύτης εποίησεν. --The British Museum
Keyword
  • Iliad Book 9
  • Boar Hunt
  • Iliad Book 2-16
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 21.59 cm Diameter: 34.29 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00905
Item Locator
  • Box 2, Section 30
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1857,0805.1
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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