amphora
- Museum number
- 1851,0416.5
- Description
-
Pottery amphora.
Designs pale red on black panels, with palmettes, egg-moulding, and tongue-pattern above, dots down the sides, and maeander along the bottom.
(a) Hermes bringing goddesses to Paris: On the left is Hermes seated on hilly ground to right, beardless, with curly hair, petasos, bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, and endromides, caduceus in left hand, right raised; below him is a greyhound couching to right. Facing him is Hera, with long curls, stephane on which are palmettes, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with κολπος and bordered apoptygma fastened on shoulders, sandals, and embroidered veil over her head, drawn forward in left hand; in right she holds out a phiale. Behind her is Aphrodite advancing, with necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton and apoptygma with a stripe down the side, fastened on shoulders, and an embroidered garment behind falling nearly to knees; in right hand she holds up a myrtle-branch.
(b) On the right two ephebi confronted, wrapped in himatia, with sandals, the one standing to right holding out right hand; on the left is a similar one to right; before him, a stele, and above, a flute-case (?) of skin.
- Production date
- 360BC-320BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 54.61 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Partly repainted.
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 73 in the sale.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1851,0416.5
