- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1051
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora.
(a) Type of Menelaus pursuing Helen. Warrior with drawn sword pursuing a woman. He is bearded, wreathed, nude, with petasos hanging by cord at back, chlamys as shield on left arm, scabbard at waist, with brown snake ornament twisted round it, and rushes to right with a drawn sword in his right hand; the woman in chiton, himation, bracelets, earrings, and a radiated stephane, looks back, extending her right with a gesture of entreaty; with her left she raises the edge of her skirt. Between the figures, ΔΙΟΝΟΚΛΕΣ KAΛΟΣ, Διωνοκλής καλός.
(b) A bald-headed old man (or woman?) in long chiton, himation and fillet, and carrying a crutch staff on his left arm, running to left, extending his right arm as if to aid the woman in a. In the field, KAΛΛΙΑΣ, above, KAΛΟΣ, Καλλίας καλός.
Later stage of strong style. Purple inscriptions, wreath, fillet, cord of petasos, and swordbelt. Brown inner markings, folds of chiton in b, and bracelets. Hair of warrior edged with dots, beard with wavy strokes; hair and beard of old man left in brown outline. Eye of warrior of transition type (dotted circle in place of inner angle); the other eyes archaic. Below the scenes a continuous band, sets of five maeanders separated by red cross and dotted chequer squares. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted palmette.
- Production date
- 460BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.75 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Panofka, Eigenn. mit καλός, pl. 4, 10, p. 81; de Rossi, Vasi Greci di Blacas, pl. 47; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 36, no. 7; Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 76, no. 4; Kretschmer, Vaseninschr. p. 175; C.I.Gr. 7864 b.
The subject of a is almost identical with Tischbein, Hamilton Vases, iv, pl. 50; but the variation makes it improbable that this is the vase published by Tischbein.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc45)
- Condition
- Much broken, but design practically complete.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1051