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Detail: Exterior
Drinking cup (kylix)
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Diameter: 23.1 cm (9 1/8 in)
Diameter: 23.1 cm (9 1/8 in)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry and Fiske Warren
Accession Number08.293
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 143.
DescriptionInterior: Youth in chlamys, running to the left. He holds his himation in both hands.
Exterior side A: Three youths. One runs holding his himation in both hands. He looks back at another youth who is pursuing him. A second youth runs in from the left as if to cut off the retreat path.
Exterior side B: Two youths and a bearded man in a similar scene to Exterior A. A bearded man on the left pursues a youth. The youth holds a flower in one hand.
A string-bag is hanging in the field.
Exterior side A: Three youths. One runs holding his himation in both hands. He looks back at another youth who is pursuing him. A second youth runs in from the left as if to cut off the retreat path.
Exterior side B: Two youths and a bearded man in a similar scene to Exterior A. A bearded man on the left pursues a youth. The youth holds a flower in one hand.
A string-bag is hanging in the field.
ProvenanceBy 1899: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in 1899 in Rome.); gift of Edward Perry and Fiske Warren to MFA, May 1908