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Drinking cup (kylix) with Menelaos reclaiming Helen
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Length: 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Gift of the Archaeological Institute, University of Leipzig
Accession Number13.190
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 007.
DescriptionCenter of a kylix. Interior: Menelaos reclaiming Helen; within a thin circle a bearded warrior, wearing cuirass and Corinthian helmet leading a woman, wearing chiton with kolpos, himation and veil, to left. He grasps her right wrist, looks back and brandishes sword in right hand. In the field at left the Greek inscription: "Elpi[nik]os is handsome" (Elpi[nik]os kalos).
Ext.: Plain
Ext.: Plain
InscriptionsΕLΠΙ[ΝΙΚ]ΟS ΚΑLΟS
ProvenanceAccording to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol.1, p. 6, no. 7: From Cervetri.; by 1912: with Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, January 2, 1913, for $18,948.70 (this figure is the total price for MFA 13.186-13.245); in 1936 a fragment formerly in the collection of the University of Leipzig was joined to the MFA cup