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Nike and Warrior

Alternative Title
  • Vase E406
  • Pelike
Creator Display
  • attributed to Washing Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-ca. 420 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0430/-0420
Description
  • Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
  • Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Nike pouring libation before young warrior. On the left Nike, in a long sleeved chiton with apoptygma, her hair looped up with a fillet, flies to right, holding downwards in her left hand a blazing torch; from an oinochoe in her right she pours wine into a phiale which the warrior holds sloping downwards, so that the wine falls on the ground. He stands en face, but looks towards Nike, holding a spear upright in his left hand. He wears a short chiton, a cuirass decorated with stars on the shoulders, and a wreath of laurel; over his left forearm hangs a mantle. (b) An ephebos, closely draped, confronted on right by a woman in himation and sleeved chiton, who holds out in her right a long taenia; below, a square box decorated with a rosette. Refined execution, but proportions heavy. Purple wine, flame, wreath, fillets, and ends of taenia. Brown inner markings, markings of torch and wings, and for relieving the folds of drapery in a. Eye in profile. Below a, the strip of groups of three maeanders separated by chequer squares; in b they are separated by red cross squares; above each side, egg pattern. A splash of black paint has fallen on the cuirass of the warrior. --The British Museum
View
  • Front
Temporal
  • 430-420 BCE
Coverage
  • Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Keyword
  • Iliad Book 2-16
  • Book 6 Parallels
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted
Measurements
  • Height: 24.13 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00689
Item Locator
  • Box 2, Section 12
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1867,0508.1146
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. (24 Apr 2024). Nike and Warrior Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694290f

MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Nike and Warrior" Oregon Digital. 24 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694290f

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Nike and Warrior" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-24. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694290f

Wiki

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