Furtwängler-Reichhold Tafel 85 Side B Helena returned to Menelaos after the Trojan war
Boston MFA 13.186 Skyphos Side B
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Side B: Menelaos attacking Helen. On the right, Menelaos rushes at Helen with his head lowered, about to draw his sword. Helen flees to the left, turning back towards Menelaos. Menelaos is in full armor, with a short chiton, leather corslet, greaves, Attic helmet and a shield. The knees of the greaves are ornamented with gorgoneia, and a pad is tied around his ankle to keep the greaves from chafing. The corslet is strengthened with metal scales, and its shoulder-flap is decorated with a star. The shield, shown in front view rather than foreshortened, has a charging bull as a device. Helen turns back towards Menelaos, and extends her left arm towards him, and holds up her himation with her right. She wears a veil and stephane, necklace and earring.
Behind Helen, Aphrodite approaches, turning Helen's head towards her husband to still his anger. She wears a chiton and himation, earrings and a sakkos, and extends her arm out towards Helen. To the left of Aphrodite is another woman, looking round towards the scene and holding a flower. She wears a chiton with overfall, a girdle, a himation over both shoulders, a necklace and earrings. She is labelled Kriseis. Next to her is an old man, labelled Kriseus with a long white beard and white hair bound up with a cord. He wears a long chiton and himation, and holds a staff in his right hand. These two figures may be variant spellings of Chryses and Chryseis, the priest of Apollo and his daughter, with which the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the Iliad begins. The figures are all labelled.
Under both handles are figures. Under one, Priam sits on a folding stool covered with a checkered cloth, looking towards Menelaos and Helen. He wears a long chiton and himation, and holds a staff in his right hand and makes an apprehensive gesture with his left. He is bearded and the top of his head is bald, with his front hair tied in a knot in the middle of his forehead. Under the other handle is a small boy in a himation, stepping forwards towards Peitho on side A. He is unlabelled, but may be Helen's son whom she abandoned to follow Alexandros.
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Furtwaengler, Adolf ; Reichhold, Karl
Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder; (Serie II, Tafel 61-120)
München 1909; Tafel 85
Furtwängler-Reichhold Tafel 85 Side B Helena returned to Menelaos after the Trojan war
Boston MFA 13.186 Skyphos Side B
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Side B: Menelaos attacking Helen. On the right, Menelaos rushes at Helen with his head lowered, about to draw his sword. Helen flees to the left, turning back towards Menelaos. Menelaos is in full armor, with a short chiton, leather corslet, greaves, Attic helmet and a shield. The knees of the greaves are ornamented with gorgoneia, and a pad is tied around his ankle to keep the greaves from chafing. The corslet is strengthened with metal scales, and its shoulder-flap is decorated with a star. The shield, shown in front view rather than foreshortened, has a charging bull as a device. Helen turns back towards Menelaos, and extends her left arm towards him, and holds up her himation with her right. She wears a veil and stephane, necklace and earring.
Behind Helen, Aphrodite approaches, turning Helen's head towards her husband to still his anger. She wears a chiton and himation, earrings and a sakkos, and extends her arm out towards Helen. To the left of Aphrodite is another woman, looking round towards the scene and holding a flower. She wears a chiton with overfall, a girdle, a himation over both shoulders, a necklace and earrings. She is labelled Kriseis. Next to her is an old man, labelled Kriseus with a long white beard and white hair bound up with a cord. He wears a long chiton and himation, and holds a staff in his right hand. These two figures may be variant spellings of Chryses and Chryseis, the priest of Apollo and his daughter, with which the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the Iliad begins. The figures are all labelled.
Under both handles are figures. Under one, Priam sits on a folding stool covered with a checkered cloth, looking towards Menelaos and Helen. He wears a long chiton and himation, and holds a staff in his right hand and makes an apprehensive gesture with his left. He is bearded and the top of his head is bald, with his front hair tied in a knot in the middle of his forehead. Under the other handle is a small boy in a himation, stepping forwards towards Peitho on side A. He is unlabelled, but may be Helen's son whom she abandoned to follow Alexandros.
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Furtwaengler, Adolf ; Reichhold, Karl
Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder; (Serie II, Tafel 61-120)
München 1909; Tafel 85