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Collection: | London, British Museum |
Summary: | Side A: Rhapsode reciting. Side B: Flute player. |
Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
Painter: | Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter |
Context: | From Vulci |
Date: | ca. 490 BC |
Dimensions: | H. 0.47 m. |
Primary Citation: | |
Shape: | Neck amphora |
Beazley Number: | 201668 |
Period: | Late Archaic |
Decoration Description:
Side A: A rhapsode stands in profile to the right. He wears a loosely draped himation, and his right shoulder is exposed. His right arm is extended in front of him, resting on his staff. He is reciting poetry, as we see the words come out of his mouth
Side B: A flute player walks toward the right. He is dressed in a himation which flutters out behind him, and a sleeveless overshirt decorated with a checker pattern. This same pattern is seen on the shirt of another flute player ; a fragment of a volute krater
Both panels have a lower border of stopped meanders alternating with patterned squares (crosses and dotted saltires).
Shape Description:
Neck amphora with twisted handles
Inscriptions:
Side A, the rhapsode is reciting,
Collection History:
Ex. Coll. Canino
Sources Used:
BCH 108 (1984) 114, fig. 5BCH 110 (1986) 206, fig. 1GVGetMus 2 (1985) 244, fig. 6The Greek World (Oxford, 1976) 108
Other Bibliography:
JHS 78 (1958) 37, fn. 22.Musikgeschichte in Bildern II Musik des Altertums, 4 Griechenland (Leipzig, 1963) 33, fig. 11L'Instrument de Musique dans la céramique de la grèce antique, Etudes d'organologie (Paris, 1984): 21, fig. IIbThe Greek World, Classical, Byzantine, and Modern (London, 1985),160