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Description: | Three-handled pitcher, black-figured, in glazed red clay. Shows gods escorting a marriage procession. Bearded man driving a quadriga. On left, female figure, behind, Dionysus with wreath of vine leaves, on right, Persephone. On the other side of the quadriga Apollo with lyre, Leto and Artemis, in front Hermes. On neck, three warriors engaged in combat, and two females looking on.
'Hydria. 64020.(Ramsay catalogue VIII; Reid catalogue 696). Henderson Collection.
ABV 324.32 (Euphiletos Painter); P.Bull.Ac.Brux, 8, part 1 pl. at p. 428; LIMC Apollon no. 847.
H. 43.4, H. to top of vertical handle 47.5, D. body 30, D. foot 15.7, D. mouth 23. Mended.
Painted inside to base of neck. Outer edge and underside of rim reserved, handles reserved. Tongues at base of neck above picture. Dotted neck between lines at vertical sides of body picture, bud interlace below panel and above rays. Double red line encircling body below panel and above rays. Body glazed to above rays at base.
Red fillet at join of body to base, foot glazed to lower edge of toe. Underside unpainted.
Shoulder: hoplite fight between framing female figures. The females face right and left respectively; they have long hair, and wear chiton and striped, dotted himation. They gesture with one hand towards the central encounter. In the centre, three warriors: at left, warrior with Boiotian shield seen from inside, crested Corinthian helmet and chiton attacks central warrior with spear. He runs right, looking back. The central hoplite bearing shield with single leg device, wearing crested Corinthian helmet and greaves, thrusts back with horizontally held spear to right. as the third warrior, equipped with Boiotian shield, thrusts at him with a spear. He wears a crested Corinthian helmet, chiton, greaves.
Body: Chariot procession (wedding?) At left, woman wearing chiton with dotted crosses, and round maeander border, loose hair with fillet, striped himation. She gestures to the chariot passengers. With her, beyond, a bearded male with ivy wreath, striped himation, chiton with dot-band edge. Before them, a couple in a four-'horse chariot. He drives, bearded, wearing striped himation over dot-edged chiton. Beyond him stands the female wearing and holding out garment and veil with cross-pattern. Beyond horses' tails, a woman moving right, wearing loose hair with ribbon, chiton with dot rosettes and dotted crosses. Beyond horses' rumps, a kithara player, moving right, the kithara overlapping into scene above. He has long hair with ribbon. Facing him beyond the horses, a woman dressed as the first. Beyond the horses' heads, head lost, man wearing himation with red stripes, short chiton, boots.
Added red: shoulder: garment stripes, shield edges and dot on interior, hair ribbons. Body: hair ribbons, ivy wreath, garment stripes and dots, horses; amnes and tales, beard, band on kithara.
Added white: shoulder: female flesh, leg on shield, dots on right shield. Body: female flesh, kithara mounts, chiton of man at right.
530-20 B.C.
Cf. for body scene Munich 1697, ABV 324.31; Munich 1699, ABV 324.34. The scene is commonly taken for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, attended by gods (Dionysos, Apollo, Hermes).'
From: Moignard, E. Aberdeen University: Marischal Collection. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Oxford University Press, 2006, p.4
Field collector: Henderson, Dr Alexander | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 600 BC-500 BC; IA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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