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Achilles

Alternative Title
  • Vase B323
  • Old Catalogue 472
  • Hydria
Creator Display
  • attributed to Leagros Group (Ancient Greek vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0510/-0500
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured hydria. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides and palmettes along the bottom; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Departure of warriors: In the centre, a warrior to right, beardless, with long hair, fillet, short chiton, and sword, fastening a greave on his left leg, which rests on his helmet; the other greave is already on. Facing him, stands a female figure with long tresses, fillet, long chiton and diploidion, holding his spear in right hand. Behind her is a warrior to left with tall visored helmet, chlamys, greaves, spear and shield with device of a bent leg supporting with right hand the shield of the first warrior, which has a tripod as device. Behind him is an archer departing to right, and looking back, bearded, with peaked cap, short embroidered chiton, double-headed axe in right hand, left hand raised, quiver at side. Confronting him is a warrior, as last, with three pellets on shield. On the left of the centre group is a similar warrior to left, with three pellets on shield, confronting an archer, as the former, but beardless; also a beardless figure to right in long chiton and embroidered himation, holding in left hand a wand or spear. 2. On the body: Achilles and Penthesilea: In the centre is Achilles moving to right, bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, two spears in right hand, carrying over left shoulder the body of Penthesilea. Her head hangs down in front with eyes closed, long tresses and a purple wreath, and she wears a short chiton and cuirass, on right arm a bracelet, on right leg an anklet, at side a sword, with sheath terminating in a panther's head. By the side of Achilles is a Boeotian shield with device of an ivy-wreath. In front of him are a warrior and archer departing to right; the warrior, who is looking back, is fully armed, with triquetra as device on shield; the archer is bearded, with Phrygian cap, short embroidered chiton, and greaves, in left hand an axe, at back a quiver. On the left is a fallen Amazon lying back with left leg drawn up, long tresses, fillet, high-crested cap, cuirass, short embroidered chiton, greaves, spear, and shield with two pellets. Over her strides a warrior to left, fully armed, shield with device of a bull's head transfixing her with spear. Above this warrior is inscribed: KAΛOΣ; in front of Achilles is inscribed : KPITI ... Κρίτί[ας]. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
View
  • Detail: Front
Temporal
  • ca. 510-500 BCE
Coverage
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Inscription
  • KAΛOΣ; KPITI ... Κρίτί[ας].
Keyword
  • Penthesilea
  • Myth between Iliad and Odyssey
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 52.07 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_01497
Item Locator
  • Box 4, Section 3
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1836,0224.128
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
Collections

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Chicago

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Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Leagros Group http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500021673
2 Lowenstam, Steven http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82014350
3 hydriae http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300198844
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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