eye-cup
- Museum number
- 1842,0407.23
- Description
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Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette.
Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right.
Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right.
(b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 30.48 centimetres
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Height: 13.97 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Klein, Meistersig.2 p. 101, no. 2.
- Location
- On display (G14/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 8 Jun-4 Sep, Los Angeles, The Getty Villa, The Colors of Clay
- Condition
- Badly shattered, but nothing missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0407.23
