amphora
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.20
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured amphora.
(a) Eros flying to right, with feet just off the ground, looking back, bowling a hoop; he is a full-grown youth, with long hair looped over his ears, wreathed with olive; on his left hand he carries a dove, sitting to right; in his right the hoopstick. On the left, Διοκλής καλός.
(b) A wreathed ephebos, in an himation, standing to right and extending his right arm as if towards Eros in a. Beside his head, KAΛΟΣ, καλός.
Strong style. Purple wreaths and inscriptions; brown inner markings, body feathers of bird, and pinions of Eros. Eye in transition. Edge of hair in b dotted. Below a, a strip of maeander; below b, a strip of single ivy-leaves.
- Production date
- 480BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.75 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Raoul-Rochette, Mon. Ined. pl. 44, fig. 1, p. 233; Panofka, Eigenn. mit καλός, pll. 2, 7, p. 54; Él. Cér. iv, pl. 48, p. 179; Kretschmer, Vaseninschr. p. 194; Ann. dell' Inst. 1830, p. 139; Daremberg and Saglio, vol. i, part ii, p. 1601, fig. 2164; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 63; Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 77; C.I.Gr. 7810.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc9)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.20
