- Museum number
- 1836,0224.126
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured amphora.
(a) Achilles, bearded, with helmet tilted back, wearing a short chiton, a cuirass with scales on the body, a mantle over his shoulders, and a sword at his waist, stands to right, holding upright in his right hand a spear. Beside him on the right, AXIΛEYΣ, Άχίλεύς.
(b) Briseis, in long sleeved chiton, mantle passing over the left shoulder and twisted round the right, decorated with maeander crosses and dots and an embattled border, long hair with three side tresses (παροτίδες), earrings, bracelets, and a wreath of alternate flowers and leaves, stands to right with right hand on her hip, holding a flower with her left towards her face, inhaling the scent. On the right BPIΣΕΙΣ, Βρίσηΐς.
The handles are left red: on one is painted in black EYΞΣΙΘΕΟΣ; on the other, read the reverse way, EΠOIEΣEN: Έύξίθεος έποίησεν. The design curves up over the shoulders, but there are no ground-line nor patterns. Purple is used for the sword-belt, part of the lining of the shield, the inscriptions, the wreath, bracelets, and flower. Brown inner markings and upper folds of the chiton in b (?). Eye in archaic form, with very large dotted pupil. Outline of hair edged all round with minute dots. Long wedge-shaped beard. Feet very long and slender. Drapery in careful regular folds, finely drawn.
- Production date
- 520BC-510BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.64 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Gerhard, A. V. iii, pl. 187, p. 75; Rapp. Volc. no. 409; Panofka, Namen der Vasenb. p. 17 (169); Overbeck, Her. Bildw. p. 386, no. 10; Brunn, Künstlergesch. ii, p. 688; Klein, Euphronios2, p. 245; Meistersig1, p. 137, no. 3; Heydemann, Iliupersis, p. 27, note 5, and in Comm. Mommseni, p. 175; Baumeister, p. 691, fig. 748, gives b; Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 71, assigns the paintings on this vase to Oltos.
For the style, cf. De Witte, Coll. de l’hôtel Lambert, pll. 23-24, which may be by the same hand; pl. 24 has Melieus kalos, see Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 68.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc4)
- Condition
- Surface much damaged and repainted; but the general design is undoubtedly genuine.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.126
