pelike
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.63
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Male figure pursuing a woman. On the left a bearded man in a short tied chiton with sleeves, with long hair looped up with a woollen (?) fillet, from which a single long tress escapes on each side of the neck, and a mantle hanging from his left arm, carrying a long sceptre horizontally in his right hand, advances rapidly to right; he grasps with his left hand the shoulder of a woman closely draped in a long chiton and himation, and wearing a saccos, who looks back at him as she moves away. The saccos has the end hanging behind the ear; sceptre surmounted with a palmette. Between the figures, KAΛΟΣ, κάλος.
(b) A draped ephebos, with right resting on a crutch staff, confronted on left by a woman closely draped in a long chiton and himation which covers the back of her head. Her right hand clasped below the drapery is drawn in a spiral form. On one handle are incised characters, ΛΝΝΔΙΙΙ III.
Purple inscription. No inner markings. The edge of the beard is indicated by black strokes on a brownish wash; the edge of the hair is dotted; the hair of the woman in a is indicated by a fringe of wavy ringlets covering the forehead. The eye is of the archaic form, with dotted circle set against the inner angle; in the case of the youth in b, the upper and lower row of eyelashes are drawn. Below, a continuous band of pairs of maeanders separated by red cross squares; above a, a strip of palmette and anthemion alternately; above b, a strip of maeander. Below each handle, a double palmette, from which on each side two large palmettes and a flower spread into the design.
- Production date
- 480BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 41.91 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Old No. 725. Él. Cér. i, pl. 50, p. 152.
Very similar to BM Vase Ε350. For the form of the eyelashes, cf. BM Vase Ε15 and Ε410. For the form of the drapery, cf. the Epidromos cup, BM Vase Ε25.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.63
