kylix / Ceramic / Glaze / Paint

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Object Identifier: 0000.00.2601
Object Name: kylix
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze; Paint
Design Style: Attic Red Figure
Weight: 258g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Mended with a few minor restorations. Face of youth at right on B is missing. Underside of foot reserved except for a band of glaze set in a little way from edge. Around the medallion on the interior is a stopped meander interrupted at irregular intervals by crossed squares, Beneath the handles are palmette scrolls, Below the figures is a reserved line. Interior: nude youth wears a chalmys scarf-fashion over his shoulder and walks to the right playing a lyre. A: Youth playing a lyre stands in profile to the right facing a second youth who walks to the right but turns around to look at his companion toward whom he stretches out his right arm, holds a staff in his left hand. Both are nude but wear chalmydes over their shoulders like scarves. B: same scene as A but youth at left is walking to right instead of standing still. Relief contour:lyres, forehead and back of neck of youth on interior. Brown : nipples, linea abla, abdominal muscles, navel-pubes line, iliac crest, outline of chin of youth at right on A.; Kylix (stemmed drinking cup) with revellers. Clay, Attic Red Figure.
Subjects: Man with lyre
Verbatim Date: 430 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Greece
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Music in Roman Egypt; Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy; Case 07 - Greek World
Exhibition Curator: Wilfong, Terry; Talalay, Lauren; Herbert, Sharon C.
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum; Cavafy's World
Publication Author: Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root; Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 2015; 1933; 2002
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 152 KB
Record: 0000.00.2601
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2601/0000_00_2601p01.tif

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