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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2009.32 |
Object Name |
Cup |
Title |
Attic Red-Figure Kylix |
Artist |
Penthesilea Painter, attributed |
Date |
ca. 470 B.C.E. |
Description |
Large, shallow drinking cup depicts a youth pursuing a woman in the interior, and youths with horses and men on the exterior. The "alien" stem and foot, not original, is signed by Nikosthenes. On deposit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. |
Label |
Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon and APS member, donated this kylix, an ancient Greek wide-bowled drinking cup, to the Society. It was found on the western Italian estates of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, during archaeological excavations carried out between 1828 and 1829. Attic pottery, named for Attica where it was produced between the 6th and 4th centuries B.C.E., was widely exported thoughout the Mediterranean. Black- and red-figure Attic pottery was produced using a complex three-stage firing method, resulting in either black figures on a red background, or red figures on a black background, as on this piece. Kylixes, used for drinking watered wine, typically included painted friezes on both the inner and outer surfaces of the bowl. This particular kylix has been attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, one of the leading Athenian vase painters of the first half of the fifth century. |
Material |
Clay |
Dimensions |
H-5 Dia-14.5 inches |
Credit line |
American Philosophical Society. Gift of Joseph Bonaparte, 17 June 1836. |
Search Terms |
archaeology vessel classical Greek Ancient Greece ancient food |