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Youths and Eros playing knuckebone

Alternative Title
  • Vase E501
  • Bell krater
Creator Display
  • attributed to Amykos Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 430-ca. 400 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0420/-0400
Description
  • Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Eros playing astragali (knucklebones). On the right Eros, closely draped in a mantle, with wings raised, is seated to left on a square base jesting on a plinth; he stoops forward, supporting on the back of his right hand a number of astragali; a heap of others lie on the ground beside it. In the centre stands a nude ephebos (Ganymedes) leaning on a staff, who places with his right a circlet on the head of Eros. On the left a second ephebos, closely draped in a mantle, stands looking on, resting his left on a staff. (b) A draped ephebos to left, his head uncovered, between two more draped ephebi, confronted, staff in hand. --The British Museum
  • Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
View
  • Front
Temporal
  • ca. 420-400 BCE
Coverage
  • Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy (creation)
  • Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery)
Keyword
  • Pottery VI--Italian
  • Amykos Painter
Work Type
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted
Measurements
  • Height: 31 cm Diameter: 31.5 cm Weight: 2.1 kg
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_06700
Item Locator
  • Box 15, Section 14
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1856,1226.8
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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APA

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MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Youths and Eros playing knuckebone" Oregon Digital. 27 Apr 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df692647n

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Youths and Eros playing knuckebone" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-27. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df692647n

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