kylix
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.90
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured kylix, with low foot.
Interior: Within a circle composed of two red lines very close together, Eros moving to right in a slightly bent attitude, putting forward his right hand with fingers bent as if holding something. On his left hand is seated a hare, and a mantle hangs from his left forearm. He wears a fillet, to which is attached a dotted rosette over the forehead, both coloured purple.
Graceful style. Inner markings of body and wings in a colour which is now a bright yellow. The surface has been ruddled. Eye in profile.
- Production date
- 470BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13.97 centimetres
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 50, 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 black varnish inside red figures, winged female, holding a hare (1 entire).
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
- On display (G20a/dc3)
- Condition
- About one quarter of lip broken away; surface much injured by corrosion.
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.90