1925.30.127: Kabeirion Skyphos depicting Kirke or Penelope at the loom

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.127

Title

Kabeirion Skyphos depicting Kirke or Penelope at the loom

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

5th century BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Boeotia

Period

Classical period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291687

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Yellowish clay with slip, brown glaze

Technique

Black-figure

Dimensions

actual: 17.3 x 26.9 cm (6 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Athens, 1898] sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Pomfret, CT, (1899-1925), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.127

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

From the Kabeirion, Thebes. Side A: Odysseus and Kirke. On the left a large loom, before which a female figure clad in a chiton is sitting with both hands extended. Facing her to left two men wearing chlamydes and piloi, the first leaning on a staff. Only their heads and shoulders are preserved. Side B: Grape clusters. Below, encircling the entire vase, broad, glazed band intersected by two narrow reserved stripes. Reddish bands on edge of foot and concentric circles underneath. Exterior reserved, interior entirely covered with a reddish brown glaze. Execution hasty and incisions careless.

Publication History

• Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
• George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 143.
• Jean-Marc Moret, Circé Tisseuse Sur Les Vases Du Cabirion, Revue Archeologique (1991), No. 2, pp. 227-266, pp. 256-257, nos. 14-16
• Diana M. Buitron, The Odyssey and Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image, exh. cat., Blum Art Institute (Annandale-on-Hudson, 1992), pp. 158, 164-16; cat. 56
• Karen-Hanne Stærmose Nielsen, Kirkes Væv: Opstadvævens historie og nutidige brug, Historisk-Arkaeologisk Forsogscenter Lejre (Lejre, Denmark, 1999)
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Vol. 6, Kirke 29.
• [Reproduction Only], Persephone (Spring 2001), Vol. 5, No. 2, p. 46
• [Reproduction Only], Persephone, (Spring 2005)., p. 21

Exhibition History

• Greek Art and Life: From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Private Lenders, Fogg Art Museum, 03/07/1950 - 04/15/1950
• The Odyssey and Ancient Art, Blum Art Institute, New York, 10/06/1991 - 03/01/1992
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 01/03/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/17/2017 - 01/07/2018; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/30/2023

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