kylix
- Museum number
- 1851,0416.3
- Description
-
Pottery: red-figured kylix.
Interior: Within a circle consisting of maeanders separated by squares with dotted quarters, satyr fishing. He squats to right on a rock jutting out from the border on left, and with his rod in right has hooked a fish which he draws in, preparing to grasp it with his left. The colour in which the rod and line were painted is almost entirely faded.
Exterior: (a) Two ephebi: the one on right wears a mantle and holds upright in his right a thyrsos: the other, confronting him, is nude, and leans forward with his left foot resting on higher ground, with both hands in a position as if they had contained some object now wanting. The thyrsos has a taenia tied around the stem. Both figures wear a fillet. On the left hangs in the field a discos (?), half seen.
(b) The same: except that the figure on left has both feet on the same level, and leans forward against a staff which keeps up his himation: he holds a wreath (?).
Drawing careless, especially in interior. White is used for wreaths, sashes, fillets, and the rod and line: no inner markings. Beneath and beside the handles, a debased palmette and helix ornament.
- Production date
- 390BC-370BC
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 19.05 centimetres
-
Height: 6.95 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
The interior is engraved, Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 59, fig. 8, in connection with the fisherman type in the interior of a cup by Cachrylion.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc4)
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1851,0416.3
