For those still interested in playing along with my students’ efforts, here’s the task: What can your search-fu tell you about this image below?
As before, the questions are…
- What is it?
- What is it made of?
- Where is it from?
- About when was it made?
- Where (probably) was it made?
- Where was it found, and when?
- Where is it now?
- What is its significance?
And actually, I’m going to raise the stakes a little on this one. I’ll leave comments closed on this for a while, say for a week. And the best answer at the end of a week gets a guest blogging spot over the Christmas break. It’s a chance to promote your own blog with a different audience than usual, reach out to a new community, and maybe touch a few new hearts. Woohoo! I hear you cry. A research project that turns into more work! But more work to reach a new audience. And what’s so bad about that?
This is a tough one. First this is a picture of Hephaestus, the lame God of fire. I think it depicts the creation of the shield of Achilles. As the only Greek god who worked, he epitomized excelling at a craft.
I can find that image but so far not in a museum collection. However, I uploaded the image to a site, which labeled it as a phiale or cup. However, it looks much like a kylix with the same black or red-figure style as the last piece. Kylix pieces found at the British museum were made by painters such as Euergides around 500 BC. I have been to Oxford, Boston, Germany, London etc. and haven’t found its location yet. I must be missing something and will look more when I get other work done!
Louise,
you did the best of all the commentators… the only commentator.
Do you want to do a guest blog entry between now and Christmas?