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The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3908 Posts |
Catch of the Day: Fragment of a pottery illustrated with a Greek Mermaid, VII BCN. Bird with a woman's head, this is a first représentation of a mermaid in Greece. Later, during the IIIth Century BCN, the Greek mermaid was half-Bird half-Woman. Later, she was represented by a woman. The half-Fish half-Woman kind of mermaid was from Nordic origin. The Surnateum Collections have several mermaids, including a Feejee mermaid, a Jenny Haniver, a Mami Wata (Vodu), and some others... |
Joshua J Inner circle 1014 Posts |
Nice little siren you got there. Careful of the singing.
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The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3908 Posts |
Here's Mami Wata on the Surnateum's Vodu Altar. |
Papasmurf Special user NW Ont Canada 540 Posts |
Thanks Curator for sharing, always look forward to viewing and learning about your treasures.
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gillesA4 Special user Brussels, Belgium 593 Posts |
I'm jealouououous! Of this Mami Wata!!!!!!
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (A. Einstein)
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Al Desmond Inner circle Secret Mountain Lair in Conifer, Co 1511 Posts |
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On May 25, 2014, The Curator wrote: Here is a detailed Wiki entry on Black Figure painting Black-figure pottery And here is a Wiki entry on known black figure painters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gre......e_period You may be able to attribute the design to one of these painters by appox. years that they painted and looking at their various styles. Also you may be able to extrapolate from your piece whether that shard is from a krater, bowl or other pottery piece by the size and arc of the piece. I'm not really good at the geometry, but there are ways to almost reconstruct the basic size and diameter of the item that the piece came from by using geometry. Archaeologists do it all the time. Or maybe this is to much information, but I wanted to offer the possibilities to you. or, I may be telling you things you already know. |
Al Desmond Inner circle Secret Mountain Lair in Conifer, Co 1511 Posts |
Curator.
Well, I just looked over your website. I suspect I was telling you things you already know. But the other readers of the Café may want to delve a bit into ancient Greek pottery, it's history and styles. |
Al Desmond Inner circle Secret Mountain Lair in Conifer, Co 1511 Posts |
Curator. The more I look at that, the less I think that is a mermaid. It really matches the early Greek siren. Bird with a female head. How did you attribute that figure to a mermaid?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odysse......0_n2.jpg |
The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3908 Posts |
Thanks for the links Al. I always learn.
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Sirens.htm Siren Eimi, I'm a Siren/Mermaid, on an Attico-Corinthian vase kept at the Louvre (Paris), is a very early dscription of a Mermaid. The vase dates approximatively the era of Odysseus. A bird with a woman face is - for that reason - considered as a mermaid by scholars. Even if it's highly probable that the origin of this representation comes from the Egyptian BA, one of the souls. |
The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3908 Posts |
I forgot: Mermaid and Siren are the same word in French (sirène). That may lead to confusion. In this case, siren is more appropriate, you're right.
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The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3908 Posts |
An Egyptian double BA (Horus and Osiris) in the Surnateum Collection. |
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