#pelike

[frogsonalotusleaf]

@soughthope

This skinny man was really All Might, wasn’t he? Pelike noticed he was staring so he bowed. “Principal Nezu wanted me to stop by to take measurements for new clothes for you. My name is Mode, Pelike.”

[lionofchaeronea]

Orpheus plays the lyre and sings between two standing Thracians. Side A of an Attic red-figure pelike, after the manner of the Kleophon Painter; ca. 430 BCE. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

[romegreeceart]

Sacrifice

British Museum

London, July 2022

[michael-svetbird]

: • The "PORTRAITS OФ AMAZONS" MSP Gallery • PART 14: Red- Black-figured Attic pottery closeup ~ details from: - Museum of Cycladic Art @cycladic_museum - NAM Athens @museumsmoments . [ Previous sets: #portraitsofamazons or visit FB / DA Galleries, pls see direct links below ] To be continued.. . 1. • Detail of Attic Black-figure Amphorae with Galloping Amazons Attributed to the Polyphemus Group [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Chalkidian_vase_painting] Ca 530 BC. From Etruria [?] Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens MCAA 07|19 MSP 3000X3000 300 . 2. • HIPPOLYTA Detail of Attic Black-figured Lekythos with Heracles and Amazons About 5th | early 6th BC. [?] National Archaeological Museum, Athens NAM 07|19 MSP 3000X3000 300 [ The figure is about +/-180mm H ] . 3. • TWO AMAZONS Detail of Attic Black-figure Amphora by the Edinburgh Painter [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Painter] About 500 BC. Unknown provenance National Archaeological Museum, Athens NAM 07|19 MSP 3000X3000 300 [ Sorry for the quality, max closeup w/ poor light, the figures are about +/-300mm ] . 4. • TWO AMAZONS Attacking a Greek Detail of Attic Red-figured Lidded Pelike with Amazonomachy [Side A] by Group G [www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG58537] From Athens 340-320 BC. National Archaeological Museum, Athens NAM 07|19 MSP 3000X3000 300 . "PORTRAITS OФ AMAZONS" Online Gallery: - DeviantArt: deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/67332393/portraits-of-amazons-gallery - FB Album: facebook.com/michael.svetbird/media_set?set=a.769989173369662&type=3 . . #athens #nationalarchaeologicalmuseumofathens #museumofcycladicart #archaeologicalmuseum #historymuseum #vasepainting #ancientart #redfigure #blackfigure #ancientpottery #ancientceramics #attica #amphora #amphorae #pelike #lekythos #ancient #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #antiquity #arthistory #greekmythology #hippolyta #amazons #warrioress #archaeologyphotography #museumphotography #michaelsvetbird 07|19 athens ©msp @michael_svetbird sorry for the watermarks (at Athens, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKCT8ZscxQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[equines-in-antiquity]

Attic red figure pelike. Attributed to the Akragas painter. Currently in the National Archaeological Mueseum in Athens, Greece. Its provenance is unknown. It dates to c. 440 BCE.

The red figure vase depicts the Amazons, mythical warrior women, fighting a Greek man. In myths, only the strongest of heroes could defeat the Amazons. The most famous example being when Herakles killed the Amazon queen Hippolyte for her belt during one of his labors. The Greek hero here does not seem to have a specific identity. He could perhaps represent a general heroic archetype.

Here the Amazons are dressed in Persian style. This is because of two main reasons. One being that the Greeks viewed the Amazons as living at the very edges of their world, and therefore as foreign and outside Greek customs. The second reason is that, at the time this pelike was made, the Greeks held strong animosity towards the Persians due to the Greco-Persian Wars. By dressing the Amazons in Persian garb, they were associated with the enemy.

The Amazons were known for their amazing fighting abilities, especially their talents as archers and equestrians. Both are depicted here, as one Amazon is riding as horse with a quiver of arrows hanging by her thigh.

[archaeologs]

Athenian red-figure pelike (oil container) by the Pan Painter. A sleek Heracles confounds the African servants of the Egyptian King Busiris, who intended to sacrifice him. From Boeotia. About 460 BC. Height 31 cm.

Learn more / Daha fazlası Pelike: http://www.archaeologs.com/w/pelike/

[fishstickmonkey]

Attic red-figure pelike: (A) man and seated lyre-player, (B) youth and woman

attributed to the Naples Painter, Greek, Attic, active ca. 450–ca. 420 B.C.

Greek, Attic, ca. 460–450 B.C.

Ceramic

Princeton University Art Museum

[vasorumantiquorum]

Pelike with protome of amazon and griffin. IV century BC. Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, Edirne, Turkey.