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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.28
People
Ascribed to The Pioneer Group, Greek (active early 6th century BCE )
Title
Kylix (drinking cup): Crouching Satyr
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 510-500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292635

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
with handles: 12 x 36.6 cm (4 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
JCH purchased in Athens in 1890s,

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #13317 AND 9017685

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.28
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The interior tondo depicts a crouching satyr who holds wine pitcher in his right hand, his left upraised, and wears a now faded wreath painted in applied red. There are traces of letters in the background. The entire cup is covered in lustrous black gloss, except for the edge of the foot and a panel under each handle.

Publication History

  • Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, website
  • Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926), 3900
  • Sara Chiarini, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidia, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, The Netherlands, 2018), pp. 306-7

Verification Level

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