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Boreas chases Oreithyia and companion

Alternative Title
  • Vase E512
  • Trefoil-mouth oinochoe
  • Old Catalogue 870
Creator Display
  • Pan Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, ca. 475-450 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0480/-0460
Description
  • Pottery: red-figured oinochoe with trefoil mouth. On the body and shoulder: Boreas seizing Oreithyia. Boreas, a winged bearded figure with long hair, wearing a sleeveless chitoniscos tied, and endromides with wings or flaps, rushes to left, seizing with both hands the left arm of Oreithyia, who flees, looking back and raising both hands with a gesture of alarm. She wears a woollen Ionic chiton, and a small himation fastened on the right shoulder, and her hair is looped up with a fillet (left red). On the left a Nymph (Herse?) flees, in a similar dress and attitude; her himation is fastened on the right shoulder, and her hair, confined with a fillet, falls down her back, with the ends fastened in a roll; she wears earrings. On the extreme right, Erechtheus, a bearded bald old man, is seated on a rock, closely muffled in an himation which conceals his mouth and the lower part of his head; he looks downward in an attitude of dejection, his right hand striking his forehead, his left resting on a crutch-staff. He wears a fillet, indicated by a thin black line. On the foot, incised characters. Severe style. Purple fillet of girl on left and surface of lip of the vase. Brown upper folds of the long chitons, markings of rock and of anatomy; also the ends of the hair and beard of Boreas. Eye of archaic type, with inner angle open. The lower folds of the chiton of Oreithyia are grouped in regular sets of six to eight; that of the girl on left has no folds shown. The hair and beard of the old man are indicated in outline only; those of Boreas are treated as a black mass, from which long brown strokes are drawn. Below, a thin red line; above, a strip of tongue pattern, and on each side a strip of net pattern. Around the lower part of the neck is a moulding, on which is a band of pairs of maeanders separated by red cross squares. --The British Museum
  • A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; 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. 480-460 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Subject
Keyword
  • Material
  • TCs, Stelar, etc.
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted
Measurements
  • Height: 35.56 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_07405
Item Locator
  • Box 17, Section 10
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1836,0224.68
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 06/26/2023
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APA

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MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Boreas chases Oreithyia and companion" Oregon Digital. 28 Apr 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df692f06v

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Boreas chases Oreithyia and companion" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-28. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df692f06v

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