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Death of Penthesileia

Alternative Title
  • Amphora
  • Vase B210
  • Old Catalogue 554
Creator Display
  • attributed to Exekias (Ancient Greek vase painter, active 540-520 BCE); Exekias (Ancient Greek potter, active 540-520 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0540/-0530
Description
  • Black-figured pottery amphora. Under each handle, two patterns of spirals. (a) Achilles slaying Penthesilea: Achilles steps to right, bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, high-crested helmet and short striped chiton, and has beaten down the Amazon queen Penthesilea on one knee, and plunges spear into her throat. She has a high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces and serpent in relief, short diapered chiton, over which is a pardalis (leopard skin), sword and shield, and looks back at him, thrusting vainly with spear; a stream of blood gushes from her wound. In front of Achilles is inscribed: ΑΧΙΛΕΥΣ; in front of Penthesilea: ΠΕΝΘΕΣΙΛΥΑ. On the left is inscribed: Έχσηκίας έπτοίησε; on the right: Όνητορίδης καλός. (b) Dionysos and Oinopion: Dionysos to left (facing left), bearded, with hair looped up and wreathed with ivy, long white chiton and embroidered himation, holds in left hand vine-branches, and with right gives a cantharos to his son, Oinopion, who stands facing him, nude and beardless, his hair looped up with a myrtle wreath, holding an oinochoe in right hand. In front of Dionysos is inscribed: ΣΟΣΝΟΙΔ (retr.), Διόνυσος; above Oinopion: OINOΠION; behind him: Όνητορίδης καλός, as on (a). --The British Museum
  • A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
View
  • Front
Temporal
  • ca. 540-530 BCE
Coverage
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Inscription
  • Side A: In front of Achilles is inscribed: ΑΧΙΛΕΥΣ; in front of Penthesilea: ΠΕΝΘΕΣΙΛΥΑ. On the left is inscribed: Έχσηκίας έπτοίησε; on the right: Όνητορίδης καλός.; Side B: In front of Dionysos is inscribed: ΣΟΣΝΟΙΔ (retr.), Διόνυσος; above Oinopion: OINOΠION; behind him: Όνητορίδης καλός, as on (a).
Keyword
  • Penthesilea
  • Myth between Iliad and Odyssey
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 41 cm Width: 29 cm Diameter: 18 cm (This refers to the mouth of the vase.)
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_01481
Item Locator
  • Box 4, Section 4
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1836,0224.127
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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MLA

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Chicago

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Exekias http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500027430
2 Lowenstam, Steven http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82014350
3 amphorae (storage vessels) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300148696
4 Archaic (Greek culture or period) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020086
5 Attic (culture) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386850
6 Black-figure http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020195
7 Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300020118
8 British Museum http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500125180
9 Steven Lowenstam Collection http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/StevenLowenstamCollection
10 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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