Vase Catalog Number: Louvre G 186

Decoration:

Side A: Peleus, dressed in chitoniskos, nebris (spotted animal skin), chlamys, and tall traveler's boots, with petasos at the back (its ties in added red), holds a spear and staff. He presents his boy Achilles to the centaur Chiron. Achilles is nude and has blonde hair (indicated in dilute glaze) tied with a fillet; relief lines are used on his face. He stands before a tree which bears fruit in added white. Chiron is draped in an Ionic chiton (hiked up) and himation and wears a wreath in his hair. He holds a tree over his shoulder from which hang rabbit and fox (?) carcasses. He extends a hand in greeting to the boy.

Side B: A bearded man at left and three youths draped in himatia lean on their staves, perhaps conversing. The middle one points to the staff at the right. The arcs of the musculature indicated in dilute glaze are characteristic of the early style of the painter (Kurtz 1983, p. 95).

The lack of patterned ornament is characteristic of the painter's taste; instead he uses simple reserve ground lines. In general, the painter does fuller compositions on wide vessels like kraters, stamnoi, and dinoi (Boardman 1985b, 95).

Graffiti: Incised sign(s) on base of foot.

Parallels: This is one of a pair of stamnoi with a unified theme; the other is Palermo V 762 (ARV2, 207, 139; Kurtz 1983, p. 94).

Sources Used: Kurtz 1983, pp. 94-95; Boardman 1985b, 94-95

(Suzanne Heim)