Kylix
MS5693A
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5693A |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Greek |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Creator | Penthesilea Painter |
| Date Made | 460-450 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Athletes | Strigil | Nike | Discus |
| Description | Interior tondo: 2 nude boys, the one at left with a garment draped over his left forearm; the one at right holding a strigil in his raised right hand and carrying a circular object suspended by strings in his left. an aryballos (?) in field behind second boy. Maeander pattern border for tondo. Exterior A: Nike between 2 boys. B: Nike carrying a pair of sticks (?) or flutes (?) between a boy and a bearded man. Sections of rim and wall missing and restored in plaster. Foot restored in plaster. Penthesilea Painter (per E.H. Dohan). |
| Height | 7.8 cm |
| Length | 29 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 22.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Nina C. Lea, 1921 |
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