pelike
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.98
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Dionysos running to right, looking back, holding out on left a cantharos, in right a thyrsos. He is bearded, with long wavy hair falling on shoulders, and wears a long sleeved chiton and mantle, a woollen fillet and a wreath.
(b) Maenad standing to left, holding a thyrsos; she is wreathed, and wears an Ionic chiton and himation. On right hangs a wreath of ivy.
Late stage of fine style. Purple wreath in b. Light brown inner details of anatomy, and folds of chiton in b. Eye in profile. Below each side, a strip of herringbone pattern; above, egg moulding
- Production date
- 470BC-460BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 185, 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: Amphora red figures men holding a stick in one hand and a carchesion in the other – reverse woman carrying a stick.
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)
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.98
