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Drinking cup (kylix)
Greek
Archaic Period
about 510–500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens; Findspot: Vulci
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8057
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
CVA Boston 2, pl. 102.
DescriptionInterior: Gorgoneion in red figure technique.
Exterior on each side: a satyr's head in red figure technique between two black figure eyes.
Broken and repaired.
Exterior on each side: a satyr's head in red figure technique between two black figure eyes.
Broken and repaired.
ProvenanceBy 1889: Prince Torlonia Collection (excavated at Vulci, 1889: Gsell, Fouilles de Vulci, tomb no. LXXIX); by 1898: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: From Vulci (Gsell's excavation), from the same tomb as the Panathenaic amphora sent some time ago to Boston M.F.A. [99.520]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901