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Drinking cup (kylix) with a dancing satyr
Greek
Late Archaic Period
490–480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Length: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)
Diameter: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in)
Diameter: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.95
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 027.
DescriptionInterior: An ithyphallic, balding satyr, with a horse's tail and human feet, wears leopard skin and carries a stalk of fennel, both common attributes of the followers of Dionysus, the god of wine. He dances to the right, with his head turned back. The Greek inscription: "Handsome!" (KALOS) written in retrograde script near the satyr's head.
Exterior: undecorated
Exterior: undecorated
InscriptionsInscription: "Handsome!" (KALOS) (in retrograde by the satyr's head)
ΚΑΛΟ[S]
in retrograde by the satyr's head.
ΚΑΛΟ[S]
in retrograde by the satyr's head.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: From Cerveteri.); gift of E. P. Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913