pelike
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.188
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Ephebos holding keras in right, staff in left, walking to right, mantle rolled up hanging over arms; his fillet is almost faded.
(b) Ephebos, as before, walking with staff to right, looking back and holding up right with warning gesture.
On bottom of foot, an incised character, Α.
Strong style. Purple fillet. Eye in archaic type, with inner angle open; hair edged with dots. In both cases the phallos is recurved. Below each side, a thin red line.
- Production date
- 470BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 26.67 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 161, based on evidence from Biliotti's marking on the object (grave number incised), Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Amphora red figures man walking with stick in one hand and cornucopia in the other reverse covered with incrustations (1 entire).
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc36)
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.188