Athena “Ergane”, As Architect - III
The vase-painters show Athena “Ergane” usually absorbed in the midst of the creative activity of mortals in potters' or sculptors’ workshops. This skyphos by The Penelope Painter shows the goddess engaged in a different position concerned with her supervisory and inspirational role of the mythical construction of the Cyclopean wall of the Akropolis. This scene is unusual and unprecedented in Attic vase painting. Athena, standing, facing and pointing with her right arm to the right, directs the mythical construction of the walls. The goddess exhorts a giant, identified by the generic inscription Γιγας - “gigas”, carrying a huge boulder.
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Attic red figure skyphos
Height 19.9 cm; diameter 23,1; width 33.7 cm
Attributed to The Penelope Painter
440 – 430 BC
Paris, Musée du Louvre – Inv G 372
Athena “Ergane”, As Architect - III
The vase-painters show Athena “Ergane” usually absorbed in the midst of the creative activity of mortals in potters' or sculptors’ workshops. This skyphos by The Penelope Painter shows the goddess engaged in a different position concerned with her supervisory and inspirational role of the mythical construction of the Cyclopean wall of the Akropolis. This scene is unusual and unprecedented in Attic vase painting. Athena, standing, facing and pointing with her right arm to the right, directs the mythical construction of the walls. The goddess exhorts a giant, identified by the generic inscription Γιγας - “gigas”, carrying a huge boulder.
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/
Attic red figure skyphos
Height 19.9 cm; diameter 23,1; width 33.7 cm
Attributed to The Penelope Painter
440 – 430 BC
Paris, Musée du Louvre – Inv G 372