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| Keywords: Berlin Painter - Red-figure Hydria with Theseus (?) and an Amazon - Walters 4879 - Detail B.jpg Two figures stand on a ground-line of meander on the shoulder of this hydria At left a young Greek soldier advances to the right his legs and head in profile with his torso turned to present his back to the viewer He wears a chitoniskos chlamys greaves and an Attic helmet its cheek pieces raised to expose his face His left arm obscured by his body holds a shield and two spears He extends his right hand toward the Amazon before him and their gazes meet The Amazon attempts to flee from the soldier her legs are in profile moving right while her torso is depicted frontally and her head turns back to look at her pursuer Like the soldier she is clad in a chitoniskos though hers has a loose kolpos in front and she wears a short mantle a disk earring and a pointed cap from which small curls emerge around the forehead Her weaponry includes a bow in her left hand and a sagaris or small axe ineffectually pointing downward in her right hand Several mythological heroes were said to have had encounters with the Amazons but the identity of the figure represented here remains uncertain The meeting of the figures' gazes is evocative of the story of Achilles and the Amazon Penthesilea who were said to have fallen in love just as the warrior-hero plunged his sword into her chest The scene might also depict Theseus the Athenian hero who fought the Amazon queen Antiope ca 500 490 BC early Classical terracotta H 16 1/4 x W with handles 16 7/8 x Diam 14 7/16 in 41 3 x 42 8 x 36 6 cm accession number 48 79 36031 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 cat no 186 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Berlin Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Amazons in ancient Greek pottery Berlin Painter - Red-figure Hydria with Theseus (?) and an Amazon - Walters 4879 - Detail B.jpg Two figures stand on a ground-line of meander on the shoulder of this hydria At left a young Greek soldier advances to the right his legs and head in profile with his torso turned to present his back to the viewer He wears a chitoniskos chlamys greaves and an Attic helmet its cheek pieces raised to expose his face His left arm obscured by his body holds a shield and two spears He extends his right hand toward the Amazon before him and their gazes meet The Amazon attempts to flee from the soldier her legs are in profile moving right while her torso is depicted frontally and her head turns back to look at her pursuer Like the soldier she is clad in a chitoniskos though hers has a loose kolpos in front and she wears a short mantle a disk earring and a pointed cap from which small curls emerge around the forehead Her weaponry includes a bow in her left hand and a sagaris or small axe ineffectually pointing downward in her right hand Several mythological heroes were said to have had encounters with the Amazons but the identity of the figure represented here remains uncertain The meeting of the figures' gazes is evocative of the story of Achilles and the Amazon Penthesilea who were said to have fallen in love just as the warrior-hero plunged his sword into her chest The scene might also depict Theseus the Athenian hero who fought the Amazon queen Antiope ca 500 490 BC early Classical terracotta H 16 1/4 x W with handles 16 7/8 x Diam 14 7/16 in 41 3 x 42 8 x 36 6 cm accession number 48 79 36031 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 cat no 186 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Berlin Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Amazons in ancient Greek pottery | ||||
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