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| Keywords: Painter of Syracuse 23510 - Column-Krater with Hermes and the Komos - Walters 4869 - Side A.jpg This red-figure column-krater depicts Hermes on the front He is pursuing a woman possibly Herse to the right He is bearded and dressed in a chlamys with a brooch and winged boots and has a petasos hanging down his back from his neck In his right hand he holds a kerykeion at waist level and he grasps her right arm with his left Dressed in a chiton mantle and sakkos she moves right looking around her left hand extended in front On the right stands a bearded elderly man possibly Kekrops wearing a chiton fillet and mantle He holds a scepter upright in his right hand and faces left On the far left a female companion possibly Aglauros flees left looking around She wears a chiton mantle and sakkos Her right hand protrudes from the drapery beneath her chin On the back is a komos On the left a mantled youth moves right a skyphos in his left hand In the center another youth moves right looking around He also holds out a skyphos in his left hand but he gestures with his right at his side On the right a third mantled youth stands to the left holding a staff diagonally across his body His left hand is covered with his mantle and he gestures with his raised right hand The first two wear fillets the paint used to indicate them now mostly lost On the rim in silhouette are three pairs of confronted lions and boars Hermes pursuing a woman is found on a number of early classical and classical red-figure vases but none has an inscription naming the woman; thus her identity is uncertain Most likely the woman he pursues on these vases is one of the Aglaurids possibly Herse while the king must be Kekrops and the other woman one of her sisters Aglauros or Pandrosos ca 460 BC Classical terracotta cm 43 6 35 3 h x max diam ; at mouth cm 36 9 diam ; at foot cm 1737 diam accession number 48 69 9351 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown cat no 191 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Painter of Syracuse 23510 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Hermes in ancient Greek pottery | ||||
