kylix
- Museum number
- 1856,1226.91
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured kylix. Purple used for wreath and inscription: no inner markings. Interior: Within a thin red circle, a wreathed youth lying on his back to right on a couch(?), represented by a red horizontal line, and holding with both hands a large diota, as if attempting to drink from it; his right leg raised a little; slight whiskers, in brown. Around, HOΠΑΙΣΚΑΛΟΣ, ό παίς καλός.
- Production date
- 510BC-500BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 19.05 centimetres
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Height: 7.62 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Eye of archaic type. Cf. the kylix by Epictetos, Jahrbuch, 1891, pl. 5, fig. 1, and the fragment of a kylix in Jahrbuch, 1892, p. 118, where a satyr is represented in the same attitude as here, the couch being distinctly indicated by means of a cushion (cf. also BM Vase Ε37).
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc1)
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.91
