pelike
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1151
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Departure of a young warrior. He stands en face on the right, holding a spear upright in his left hand, his right hand on his thigh. He wears a short chiton with black girdle, a mantle festooned over his left arm and shoulder, and a broad fillet. He looks to left towards a woman, who offers him a phiale which she has filled from an oinochoe in her left. She wears a sleeved chiton, with himation twisted around her waist and over her left arm, and a saccos. On the ground between these figures is the warrior's shield, resting on a sloping rock. Above, an imitation inscription, apparently intended to suggest ο παις καλός.
(b) An ephebos, closely muffled in a mantle which passes over the back of his head, wearing a fillet, walking to left.
Surface of a has been dented while the clay was soft. Late stage of strong style; figures tall and thin. Purple wine, inscription, and filleting; brown ends of hair. The hair of the youth in a is curiously rendered; below the fillet it hangs in a black mass to the neck; in this black, while wet, the artist has removed with a dry brush thin lines of paint so that the red shows through, giving the appearance of thick straight tresses. Eye in transition type. Below and above each side, a strip of running maeander. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted palmette.
- Production date
- 450BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.86 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G20a/dc37)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1151
