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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a maenad
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 520–510 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.); diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.33
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 011.
DescriptionInterior: Bacchante, dancing, profile to left, head turned, holding castanets in both hands. Surrounding the figure inside the tondo, the Greek inscription "Chachrylion made me". (CHACHRYLION EPOIESEN)
Signed
Chachrylion made me (CHACHRYLION EPOIESEN)
InscriptionsInterior:
ΧΑΧΡΥΛΙΟΝ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ
ΧΑΧΡΥΛΙΟΝ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ
ProvenanceSaid to have been found at Arsinoë, ancient Marion in Cyprus, in 1886; by 1888: A. van Branteghem Collection; sold at Van Branteghem auction, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 30 - June 1, 1892: purchased at the Van Branteghem auction by Edward Perry Warren; 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)