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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a reveler (interior) and satyrs attacking maenads (exterior)
Painter: Makron
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 490 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Diameter: 21.8 cm (8 9/16 in)
Diameter: 21.8 cm (8 9/16 in)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8072
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 138.
DescriptionCup interior tondo composition: A male figure, draped in a cloak (himation) and wearing shoes, walks toward the left. He is carrying a staff, basket, and wine cup (kylix). Greek inscription in the field "Handsome!" (KA[LO]S).
Exterior side A: A maenad (female devotee of Dionysus) sleeps under a tree on some rocks, with mouth open and holding her fennel stalk (thyrsus). While she sleeps she is attacked by two satyrs. One has a hand on her leg, and the other hand is up her skirt. The other creeps up behind her.
Exterior side B: A maenad is awakened by two satyrs who attempt to molest her. She prepares to beat them off with her fennel stalk (thyrsus).
Condition: The foot of the cup was reattached in antiquity with a bronze rivet.
Exterior side A: A maenad (female devotee of Dionysus) sleeps under a tree on some rocks, with mouth open and holding her fennel stalk (thyrsus). While she sleeps she is attacked by two satyrs. One has a hand on her leg, and the other hand is up her skirt. The other creeps up behind her.
Exterior side B: A maenad is awakened by two satyrs who attempt to molest her. She prepares to beat them off with her fennel stalk (thyrsus).
Condition: The foot of the cup was reattached in antiquity with a bronze rivet.
Inscriptions"Handsome!" (KALOS)
ΚΑ[LΟ]S
ΚΑ[LΟ]S
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901