kylix
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1031
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured kylix.
Interior: Within a circle of large maeanders separated by chequered squares, Triton to right: he is bearded, and has long bordered fish tail; his body is missing from below the shoulders to halfway down the tail: but he seems to have worn an embroidered chiton and a mantle: the head is radiate. Below his tail are remains of objects which probably indicated the sea. The trident in his left is certain from the traces that remain.
Exterior: (a) A woman seated to left looking to right between two nude athletes. She holds up in her right a flower (?), and wears a chiton embroidered on the breast, earrings, and a radiated stephane. The figure on left holds up a flower (?), the one on right a strigil; each wears a fillet.
(b) A group restored much as a. The only part preserved is a fragment with the legs of the left hand athlete.
Drawing in late debased style. Eye in profile. Beneath and beside each handle, a triple palmette ornament.
- Production date
- 400BC-380BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 24.75 centimetres
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Height: 8.85 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
MuséeBlacas, pl. xx, pp. 60-3; Él. Cér. iii, pl. 33, p. 83; Ann. dell’ Inst. 1831, p. 145, no. 300; and 1832, p. 106.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc4)
- Condition
- Much broken; half of the interior and of b, and one handle and the foot are restorations.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1031