kylix
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.292
- Description
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Pottery: black figure kylix. Coarse style; no accessories. Under the handles, a pattern of lotus-buds and palmettes. Interior, in a medallion: Maenad to right, dancing, with hair looped up under a fillet, long chiton, and himation, in left hand crotala (castanets) (?); on either side of her, imitation inscriptions.
Exterior: (a) In the centre, a pot or lebes, out of which a tree is growing, laden with fruit; on either side is a female figure departing and looking back, with hair looped up, long chiton and himation, hands extended.
(b) Similar design, with tree in background, but no lebes.
- Production date
- 490BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 19.65 centimetres
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Height: 7.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 127, based on evidence from Biliotti's marking on the object (grave number incised), Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Cylix with black figures (1 broken).
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Slightly damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.292