|
Date: |
|
Description: | Decorated in black, white and added red, on a red wash or slip. The interior surface is reserved (unpainted). The handle is painted black on the outer surface between flanges, the underside is in the red wash and the edge of the handle has an ivy trail. There is a lotus (Egyptian water lily Nymphaea lotus) and palmette (palm frond) chain between lines. There is a line at the side.
The female figure faces right and gestures with her hands held out. She wears a tainaia (band or sash) and and striped himation (cloak) falling to ponts behind her. She is gesturing to a bearded hoplite (a heavily armed infantryman) with his back to her and also facing right. He is weilding a spear in his right hand, which overlaps the chain above, as does the crest of his Corinthian helmet. He is wearing a cuirass (armour that covers the chest and back) and a striped chiton (blouse or shirt). His scabbard is shown behind him and on his left arm he holds a shield with a tasselled antilabe (handle). The front end of his spear crosses another spear to his right and on that edge of the fragment there is part of the rim of another shield.
There is added red (overpainting in red) of the stalk of the ivy trail, a line above the lotus and palmette chain in the hearts of the palmettes and dots on the lotuses, on the tainia around her head, on clothing stripes and shield rims.. There is added white as the flesh of the female and on the helmet crest as well as the antilabe. B.1951.3133 (written in black ink on the on the inside of the pot on each of the three sections). ATHENS (written in black in on a paper label gummed to the reseved side of the pottery on the inside of the pot). Attica, Greece Unknown MANU Unknown circa -525 Attica, Greece This is a fragment of an Attic black figure storage jar with part of the handle. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | GREEK : CERAMIC_EUROPE : HSP03 : PH_EUROPE : RJONES2804 : BISHOP : EXIT3139 : RJONES_16MAR11 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
hydria - jug
Three-handled pitcher, black-figured, in glazed…
-
-
|