Amphora with late Anakreontic komast with barbitos

Zannoni Painter (active ca. 480-ca. 420 BCE)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
ca. 460-450 BCE
Height:
30.5 cm  (12 in.)
Technique / Medium:
red figure painting
Place of creation:
Attica (Ellás)
School:
Attic

    Item location

  • British Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1836,0224.24]Vase number E308 in Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893.

Description

Description from the Bristish Museum (which identifies the instrument as a chelys instead of a barbiton):
"Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. Shape shorter and broader than usual.
(a) A bearded kitharist in female costume. He moves to right, looking back, playing upon a large chelys with a plectrum in his right. He has long hair, which is passed through a cap which fits tightly over the forehead: and he wears a chiton and himation fastened on the right shoulder and falling in pteryges. Part of his face is broken away.
(b) Ephebos draped, resting right on staff, standing to right, head turned to left.
Good period, but drawing mannered and careless. Below each side, a strip of pattern, consisting of inlanders with one red cross square."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Barbiton [3487]

Image URLs

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Museum image. Click to enlarge.
image link 2
Beazley Archive record

Bibliographic references

Ulieriu-Rostás, Theodor E. "Music and socio-cultural identity in Attic vase painting: Prolegomena to future research (Pt 1)", Music in art 38/1-2 (2013) 9-26. RILM 2013-8535.

Notes

Beazley catalog information:
ARV2 673.7, BA 207891

RIdIM record id

3445