situla
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.85
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured situla (bucket).
Designs red on black ground, with yellow accessories. Below the designs, maeander and stars; between them, palmette-patterns.
(a) Perseus receiving the harpe from Athene: On the left is Athene to right, with long hair, high-crested helmet with plume on each side, long girt bordered chiton and diploidion reaching to the hips, earrings, necklace, and bracelets, left hand resting on a shield with rosette as device; in right she holds out the harpe to Perseus, who sits on a rock facing her. He is beardless, with bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, talaria, and two spears with amenta in right hand; his helmet (the κυνή "Αδου) is shaped like a Phrygian cap, studded with stars, with egg-pattern on the crest, and wings. Behind Athene is a spear stuck in the ground; in the field, two rosettes.
(b) A youthful Satyr to right, with fillet and taenia tied round left wrist, holds out a tympanon in left hand to a Maenad facing him; she has hair tied in a knot with a taenia, earrings, long chiton, bordered himation wrapped round her, and sandals. She dances with hands behind her, drawing back the ends of her himation. Behind the Satyr is a plant. These two figures may represent Aegipan and Echo.
- Production date
- 370BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.20 centimetres
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Weight: 1.25 kilograms
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Width: 21.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Inghirami, Vasi Fitt. iv. 366; Gargiulo, Raccolta del Mus. Borb. 122.
For the scene, cf. Vase F490.
For side b, cf. Vase F381.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc12)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.85
