Kylix
Object Number:
MS5693
Current Location:
Greece Gallery
Culture:
Greek
Provenience:
Mediterranean
Manufacture Location:
Attica
Maker:
Penthesilea Painter
Date Made:
460-450 BC
Early Date:
-460
Late Date:
-450
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Red Figure
Iconography:
Athletes
Strigil
Nike
Discus
Description:
Interior tondo: 2 nude boys, the one at left with a garment draped over his left forearm; the one at right holding a stirgil in his raised right hand and carrying a circular object suspended by strings in his left. an aryballos (?) in fiedl behind second boy. Maeander pattern border for tondo. Exterior A: Nike between 2 boys. B: Nike carrying a pair of sticks (?) or flutes (?) between a boy and a bearted bam. Sections of rim and wall mnissing and restored in plaster. Penthesilea Painter (per E.H. Dohan).
Height:
7.8cm
Length:
29cm
Outside Diamater:
22.2cm
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Mini Greek Exhibit (09 Oct 1989 - 1994)
Classical Gallery: Greece (1975 - 1989)
Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)
Bibliography:
[Electronic] 1997. The Perseus Project.
[Book] White, Donald, et al. 1995. The Ancient Greek World:The Rodney S. Young Gallery. : Page/Fig./Plate: A28
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