lebes gamikos
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.488
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured lebes gamikos (wedding vase).
Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow; coarse style. On the shoulder, tongue-pattern; and on either side of the handles, moulded heads of Amazons in Phrygian caps. On the handles are knobs; that on the left is broken off; below the handles, palmettes and tendrils.
(a) Pan to left, beardless, with fillet, string of beads over right shoulder, and goat's legs, in left hand a wreath, right hand extended to a Maenad, who moves away to left, looking back; her flesh is painted white, and she wears a close cap, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton fastened on the shoulders, and sandals, and holds out a cista in left hand, on which is fruit.
(b) Maenad as on (a), running to left, looking back; she has no necklace, but thyrsos in right hand and cista in left, on which is a fruit; her chiton has an apoptygma, and a stripe down the side. In the field, a rosette.
- Production date
- 360BC-330BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 14.20 centimetres
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Height: 24.90 centimetres
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Height: 25.40 centimetres
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Weight: 718 grammes
- Curator's comments
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Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Antiquities 488 "488. Another vase of the same shape wt. a figure holding a hasta in one hand & holding up a mark'd board wt. the other &c. on one side & a satyr wt. a figure holding out the same board on the other. Id."; id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 487 "487. A large double handled vase made of grayish red earth wt. 4 heads on its top round its cover on each side of which are two figures - looking towards each other, painted after the Etruscan manner. From Rome by the abbot Sterbini."
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BM Cat. Vases
This vase once had a cover, which has now been removed as not belonging.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc24)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.488
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.488
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 488 (Antiquities)
