Prescribed pottery/ relief sources - GR

Red figure amphora depicting sacrifice - date

450 BC

Early Classical period

Greek art coming into its own.

Red figure amphora - general design

• Painted in black glaze

• Inscribed by red

• White on the stemmata

• Ivy wreath border on the top

Red figure amphora - inscription

‘Polygnotos painted’ - name used for three painters so known as ‘ the Nausicaa painter’

Red figure amphora - Side A

• Two women adorning bulls for sacrifice for stemmata, gilding and ribbons

• Symmetrical composition

• Woman on right wears head covering - married

• Defined caring roles

• Tripods in the background

• A snapshot of time

• One woman wearing a chiton and one a pelops - different ages?

• Women could be goddesses

Red figure amphora - side B

• Preperation for libation

• Bearded male figure holding a staff

• Two young women, one holding a plate and a pot of liquid

• Woman wearing chiton

• Unknown identity of these figures

Red figure amphora - purpose

Not made for historians as it is a vase, made for use.

A simple reflection on society.

A double victory celebration - a sacrifice to Dionysus

Red figure plaque depicting cult of eleusis - date

400 - 300 BC, the only example of the rites

Plaque of eleusis - dedication

The Ninnion tablet

The woman who dedicated the tablet to the goddesses

Possibly a famous courtesan from Athens?

Plaque of eleusis - Background

• black background - the style or the fact it was in darkness

• Branches of myrtle, wood, poppies, torches - common symbols of Demeter

• Barley/ wheat

• Pillar - they are indoors

Plaque of eleusis - Main scene

• Procession of initiates walking towards Demeter and Persephone

• Cults are increasing in popularity

• White and red skin

• Iacchus carrying a torch acts as an intermediate between Gods and mortals

• Kore holds torch leading initiates to her mother Demeter

• Lesser mysteries also depicted

Plaque of eleusis - pediment

• Above the scene

• The all night celebration that takes place during the festival

Anatomical relief for Asclepius - Date

AD 100 - 200 - Asklepios still popular in the Roman period

Greece under Roman rule

400/500 years after Greece’s golden age

Anatomical relief for Asclepios - location

Island of Melos - the popularity has spread through Greece

Anatomical relief of Asclepios - material and dimensions

Marble - very expensive investment, extreme thankfulness

High - 30.48 cm

Wide - 20.32 cm

Anatomical relief for Asclepios - inscription

Tyche dedicated this to Asklepios and Hygeia as a thank offering

Anatomical relief for Asklepios - leg

Left leg, normal toes

The part of the body that has been healed due to the Asklepian cult.

Anatomical relief for Asklepios - what it does say

• physical evidence for healing

• some who went had health to spend on healing

• found on island, spread of the cult

• Asklepios and his daughters are both being worshipped

• open to both genders

• personalised

Anatomical relief for Asklepios - what it doesn’t say

• what was wrong with the leg

• how the process worked

• how typical this is

Red figure consultation of the pythia - date

440 - 430 BCE

By the Kodros painter

Red figure consultation of the pythia - product

• Black glaze

• Red inscription

• A kylix

• Red figure most popular in 5/400 BCE

Red figure kylix of Pythia - image

• Border with symbols around them

• A doric pillar - they are inside the chamber (opisthodomos)

• King Aegeus, Athenian king asking for a prophecy

• Pythia - Long dress and her head is covered, religious respect. Sat on a tripod and holding a bowl and a laurel branch

• She is in a trance like state clearly giving prophecy (fumes??)

• Bare footed - divine imagery

Red figure kylix - shows

• Process of consultation

• private nature

• important people would come to ask

Red figure kylix - doesn’t show

• how the question is asked

• the format of the response

• how the pythia comes into the trance - snapshot of time

Black figure panathenaic amphorae - date

330 BC

Black figure fell out of style in 450 Bc but this was made post - fallout, a traditional design

Prize - filled with olive oil

Black figure panathenaic amphorae - Athene

• One side of the Amphorae

• Dressed in military gear - for combat

• Powerful stance but still in feminine clothing

• Athene Promochos - front fighter

• Bare feet - symbol of the divine

• White skin - women are often depicted with white skin

• Large, central figure - overflowing the edges of the Amphora (divine often depicted as larger than humans)

• Statue of Athena Nike - victory

Black figure panathenaic amphorae - men

• three men running

• nudity - idealised male form?

• Won by the event winner

• Commemorating the panathenaic games and one of the events

• male only sports