olpe
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1010
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured olpe. Grooved handle. Design in black on a red panel, with rosettes above ; accessories of white and purple. Two Sphinxes crouching confronted, with long tresses, curly in front, confined with a fillet and a band at the nape of the neck; wings recurved. Between them is Hermes standing to right on a helix, beardless, with long hair (as that of the Sphinxes), short purple chiton with pardalis (leopard skin) over it, caduceus in right hand; he is looking back, with left hand extended. In the field, rosettes; behind each Sphinx, a lotus-flower.
- Production date
- 600BC-580BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 14 centimetres
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Height: 26 centimetres
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Weight: 567 grammes
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Panofka, Musée Blacas, pl. xxv., p. 74 ; Él Cér. iii. 77.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1010