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Attic Black-Figure Olpe

Date

about 500 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Aeneas rescuing his father Anchises, carrying him on his right shoulder. Anchises wears a long striped himation, and Aeneas is fully armed (Corinthian helmet, Boeotian shield, greaves, two spears). Behind Aeneas, a Trojan archer walking to left, looking right. He wears a Scythian cap and a short garment. He carries a bow in his left hand, and his spotted quiver is suspended from two baldrics. Before Aeneas, a woman (Aeneas's wife Kreusa or his mother Aphrodite) walks to right and looks back. She wears a long chiton, and draws her himation over her head. To her right, an old man clad in a chiton and himation with a spear. At the top of the panel: one glaze line, a double-net pattern, two glaze lines, a zone of ivy leaves, and two more glaze lines. On the sides of the panel, ivy leaves, bordered by two pairs of glaze lines. At the lower limit of the panel, a red line that encircles the vase. The olpe has a torus mouth, with one red line on the inner edge. The inside of the neck is glazed to a depth of 5.3 cm. The low handle is not glazed on its upper inner surface. The echinoid foot is reserved on the edge and underneath. Adapted from Clark, A., CVA Malibu 2 (1990).

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