kylix
- Museum number
- 1847,0806.33
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured kylix. Designs in black on buff ground, with incised lines and purple accessories. Interior: Between two horses, with recurved wings, rearing against one another, is a half-kneeling figure to right looking to left, with long hair, and short fringed chiton, holding the horses by their bridles. Exterior: Palmettes round the ends of the handles, rudely painted in black.
- Production date
- 575BC-550BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13.45 centimetres
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Height: 10.15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Millingen Coll. Bull. Arch. Nap. i. pl. xi. fig. 8, p. 190; Bonner Studien, p. 250; Arch. Zeit. 1881, p. 218; Dumont and Chaplain, p. 301.
The scene probably represents Pelops with the horses given him by Poseidon for his race with Oinomaos (cf. Pind. Ol. i. 88, and Paus. v. 17, 7: of a similar type is the Rhesos in BM B 234-5).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1847,0806.33
