pelike
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.96
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Draped bearded man, wreathed, right resting on staff, and ephebos, closely muffled in drapery which passes over the back of his head, moving away to right, looking back; he wears a fillet.
(b) Bearded man, as in a, confronted on left by a woman in an Ionic chiton, himation, and saccos, who holds in right a keras.
Drawing careless. Purple wreaths and fillet. Eye in profile. Above each design, a strip of maeander; on each side, a double row of dots; the whole forming a panel.
- Production date
- 470BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 23, based on evidence from Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Not mentioned in Biliotti's Kamiros diary. No marking of grave number visible on the object itself.
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/dc36)
- Condition
- Intact, except part of one handle, rejoined.
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.96