kylix
- Museum number
- 1842,0407.7
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured kylix with a horseman, birds and a winged figure, perhaps Victory. Designs in black on buff ground, with incised lines and purple accessories. Interior: A nude male figure on horseback to right with a floral ornament on his head. He has long hair, and holds a goad in right hand and reins in 1eft. Behind him is a winged female figure flying towards him, with long hair, short fringed chiton, and a wreath in either hand; the wings start from the breast. On the horse's neck is perched a water-bird, and in front is an eagle flying to 1eft; between the horse's legs are three water-fowl of varying size, and in the exergue is a pattern of lotus-flowers. Exterior: On either side of the handles are horizontal palmettes; below, pomegranates, tongue-pattern and rays.
- Production date
- 550BC-530BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17.75 centimetres
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Height: 12.05 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Arch. Zeit. 1881, pl. 13, 2, p. 217; Dumont and Chaplain, p. 298 ; Sikes, Nike of Archermos, p. 10.
For other vases of this style cf. Arch. Zeit., 1881, pl. 13, 3, 6, and p. 232. The winged figure somewhat resembes those on the Naucratis kylix, BM Cat. Vases B4. A similar representation in Arch. Zeit. 1881, pl. 13, 3. This scene may represent Victory crowning a victor in a horse-race, though it would thus be an early instance of a winged representation of the goddess; a similar figure is seen crowning Europa on the bull, in Jahn, Die Entführung der Europa, pl. Va (on a Caeretan hydria, see Duemmler in Röm. Mittheil. iii. (1888), p. 167): cf. also the Daphnae fragment,BM B106/3, and Micali, Storia, pl. 87, 3; for another view, see Loeschcke Jahrbuch, ii. (1887), p. 277, n. 5.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc2)
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0407.7
