Find Spot: Vulci

Date of Illustration: • around 520 BCE to 500 BCE

Current Location: British Museum, Inventory No. 1867,0508.941

Description: Pottery: black-figured pinax, a type of plate. Late style; occasional accessories of white and purple. The archer on the left is beardless, with hair curly in front, earrings, high peaked cap, and jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece, stippled all over, with a guilloche pattern down the legs; at his side, his bow and quiver, the latter ornamented with guilloche pattern, with open lid in the form of a wing; he is blowing a salpinx while wearing a phorbeia or chinstrap.

The painting is attributed to the painter Psiax working in Attica.

Citations: Smith 1929: Plate 4; Harrison 1964: Plate 21

Citations:

Full image. Citation for re-use of this image: Holmes, hornandtrumpet.com IC070

Head of player only. Citation for re-use of this image: Holmes, hornandtrumpet.com IC070