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Olpe: Aeneas fleeing from Troy

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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Purchased from Hesperia Art (George Allen) May 1965. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
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Title: Olpe: Aeneas fleeing from Troy
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.

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