Iris, Ceramic Erythromorph, silver hotsell 925

IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods. She was often described as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera.

Jewelry (Silver 925) – Museum Replicas – Ceramic Erythromorph

40cm Chain included: Silver 925

This jewelry is a ceramic fragment based on the red figure pottery Erythromorph technique developed in Ancient Greece, Athens around 490 BC. The images are from cultural history, iconography, mythology and everyday life.
It is painted by erythromorph pottery artist Sakis Vasilakopoulos, with waterproof protection and handcrafted by jewelry artist Kostas Foukas.

IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods. She was often described as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera. Iris was a goddess of sea and sky--her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a marine-god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a cloud-nymph. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks, the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and hotsell sea, and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea. Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own. In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess. Her name contains a double meaning, being connected with both the Greek word iris "the rainbow" and eiris "messenger."
Iris is depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as a beautiful young woman with golden wings, a herald's rod (kerykeion), and sometimes a water-pitcher (oinochoe) in her hand. She was usually depicted standing beside Zeus or Hera, sometimes serving nectar from her jug. As cup-bearer of the gods Iris is often indistinguishable from Hebe in art.

Dimensions: H 2cm, W 1.5 cm