bell krater
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.573
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl).
Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Above the designs, laurel-wreath and egg-moulding; below, maeander and crosses; below the handles, palmettes.
(a) Judgment of Paris: On the left is Hera, with embroidered sphendone, necklace and bracelets, long bordered chiton and apoptygma, bordered himation veiling her head, and sceptre in left hand terminating in a lotos-flower. In front of her is Paris seated on a rock to right, beardless, with petasos slung at back, bordered chlamys fastened in front with a fibula, and two spears in right hand; with left he draws forward his chlamys. Before him stands Hermes to left leaning right arm on a stele; he is beardless, with chlamys and petasos as Paris, and caduceus in right hand. On the right is Aphrodite seated on a higher level to right looking to left, with long curls, attired as Hera, in left hand a white phiale. By the side of Paris is a sheep lying to right and looking up, painted white; above him is a tree with white fruit. Below Aphrodite is a large dog to left.
(b) Three ephebi conversing; the one in the centre stands to the front, with head to left; he is nude, and holds a strigil in right hand, in left a staff; his left foot is raised on a mound; on the left is a stele. The other two face him and are wrapped in bordered himatia; above hang two pairs of halteres.
- Production date
- 350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 41.60 centimetres
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Diameter: 41.91 centimetres
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Height: 39.30 centimetres
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Height: 39.37 centimetres
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Weight: 4.20 kilograms
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Visconti, Museo Pio-Clem. iv. pl. A, 1; Millingen, Anc. Uned. Mon. pl. 17; Welcker, Ann. dell’ Inst. 1845, p. 182; Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Hera), p. 140, no. F.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc15)
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Judgement of Paris
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.573