1935.35.59: Kylix (drinking cup): Seated Dionysos
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1935.35.59
- People
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Attributed to The Caylus Painter (active c. 500 BCE)
- Title
- Kylix (drinking cup): Seated Dionysos
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 530 BCE-470 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291101
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Black-figure
- Dimensions
- 9.8 x 25.3 cm (3 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bettina Jane Kahnweiler, New York City, NY (by 1935), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #331990
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Miss Bettina J. Kahnweiler
- Accession Year
- 1935
- Object Number
- 1935.35.59
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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On one side of the exterior, an Amazonomachy is depicted. Carrying his club, Herakles charges right toward a fleeing Amazon. The Amazon carries a shield and wears a plumed helmet, her skin colored with added white paint. A winged horse stands to the right, in front of a figure whose feet are preserved. On the opposite side of the scene, a horseman rides to the right, followed by a draped figure, partially preserved, seated on a block. The background is decorated with vines.
On the other side of the exterior is the scene of Theseus and the Minotaur. In the center, Theseus slays the Minotaur, with his left arm choking the monster and simultaneously driving a sword with his right arm. Flanking the opponents on either side are women, seated on blocks. To the far left, a draped youth sits on a block while to the far right a second draped man (Dionysos?) sits on a folding stool and holds a drinking horn. Stylized vines decorate the background.
On the interior in the tondo is Dionysos. The bearded god sits facing right on a stool, turning his head over his right shoulder. In his left hand is a large drinking horn. Stylized vines decorate the background.
Publication History
- George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 27-28, pl. 10
- J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1956), 647.220, 651
- Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), vol. 7, p. 215, Pegasos 2.
Verification Level
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