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A scene from Book IX of the Odyssey: Odysseus, sword in hand, has tied himself to the underbelly of a ram to escape from the cave of the now-blinded Cyclops Polyphemus. Side A of an Attic black-figure white-ground column-krater (mixing bowl), attributed to the Sappho Painter; ca 510-500 BCE (late Archaic period). Now in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
EXEKIAS | Amazonomachy, Penthesilea and Achilles: 2 wonderful black-figure Amphorae made in Athens Attributed to Exekias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exekias [I've previously posted my pics & vids of each of these amphorae separately, as well as of their details, and this August I happened to take a more or less clean photo, given the poor lighting and no flash, of them together 🏺🏺] Both ca 540-530 BC.
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~ Beaker (kalathos) with Athletes and Trainers.
Culture: Attic, Greek
Period: Archaic period
Date: ca. 800–480 B.C.
Medium: Black-figure ceramic
Hadra hydria decorated in the black-figure technique with a bucranium flanked by swans in a panel between the handles and dolphins on the shoulder. The Greek inscription Dorotheou, 'of Dorotheos', incised above the bull's head, is the name of the person whose ashes this vase originally contained. Image by British Museum. Learn more / Daha fazlası Hadra Ware https://www.archaeologs.com/w/hadra-ware/
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with the story of the Nemean Lion
Attributed to the Diosphos Painter
Period: Archaic, ca 500 B.C.; Culture: Greek, Attic; Medium: Terracotta; black-figure, Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm); Accession Number: X.21.15w
How can you tell the right hand god on the front is Iris? She has all the attributes of Hermes - but white skin. Black (or darker, but this is Black-Figure) = Male, White (or lighter, but again, this is Black-Figure) = Female in the ancient art of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece.
(1) One Casual Storm King.
