Olpe: Aeneas fleeing from Troy
525 BCE-500 BCE
Description
Orangish-buff fabric. Plain mouthed olpe with low strap handle. Checkerboard pattern at lip. On front of vessel is a large figured panel framed at the top by a zig-zag pattern beneath a maeander. The scene shows Aeneas escaping from Troy carrying his father, Anchises, in his arms. Aeneas wears armor and carries two spears and a shield decorated with a lion. On the left of the scene, a man in a Phrygian cap carries a quiver and moves away from Aeneas and Anchises, but turns his body back to look at them. On the right of the scene, a draped woman is in a similar posture. The figures are in black-slip with details in incision and in added red and white. A portion of the lip is missing and restored in buff-colored plaster.
Dimensions
16.1 x 11.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Purchased from Hesperia Art (George Allen), May 1965.
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