Attic red-figure pottery jug depicting Nike
On display
A winged Nike flies with a ribbon towards a tripod. Both are symbols of victory: Nike means "victory" in Greek, and tripods were regularly given as prizes at games or were set up to commemorate victories in battle. This tripod appears to belong to the latter, and the vase may well have been made to commemorate the successful outcome of a battle.
The garments here recall those being worn by participants in the Panathenaic procession shown on the Parthenon frieze which was carved in the 440s.
Details
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Title
Attic red-figure pottery jug depicting Nike
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Associated place
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Date
450 BC - 430 BC
Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 cm (height)
foot 10 cm (diameter)
15 cm (width)
0.3 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Edmund Oldfield, 1899.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1896-1908.G.280
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Further reading
Beazley, John, D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 3, Oxford 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), no. 3 on p. 35, no. 3 on pl. 43
Beazley, John, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 1263
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), 58
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 1263 on p. 177
Boardman, John, Athenian Red Figure Vases The Classical Period: a handbook (London: Thames & Hudson, 1989), p. 97; no. 226 on p. 247, no. 226 on p. 114
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 44 on p. 58, no. 44 on p. 59
