pinax
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.941
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured pinax (plate). Late style; occasional accessories of white and purple. An archer to left, beardless, with hair curly in front, earrings, high peaked cap, and jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece, stippled all over, with a guilloche pattern down the legs; at his side, his bow and quiver, the latter ornamented with guilloche pattern, with open lid in the form of a wing; he is blowing a trumpet (salpinx) with a phorbeia (chinstrap).
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.50 centimetres
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Width: 19.10 centimetres
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Depth: 19.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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BM Cat. Vases
Micali, Storia, pl. 100, 4; Panofka, Bild. Ant. Leb. pl. vi. 7; see also De Witte, Cab. Durand, 867.
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This plate was painted by Psiax, who worked in both the conventional black-figure and the new red-figure techniques. The design, with the single black figure set on a plain clay background, looks like a translation into black-figure of a contemporary red-figure decorative scheme. Comparing it with a red-figure plate by the painter Epiktetos, which also shows a single archer, the opportunities offered by the newer technique are clear. The red-figure archer stands out more boldly against his black background; more varied and intricate patterns can be achieved because the details of his costume are painted rather than incised.
- Location
- On display (G14/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018, 13 Sep-15 Jan, Lens, Musee de Louvre, Musiques et sons antiques de la Mediterranee a l'Orient
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.941
