| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Summary: | Side A: Five pairs of kneeling men and youths holding fighting cocks. Side B: The same. |
| Ware: | Attic Black Figure |
| Date: | ca. 530 BC - ca. 520 BC |
| Dimensions: | H 0.168 m D 0.26 m |
| Shape: | Band cup |
| Beazley Number: | 2506 |
| Period: | Archaic |
Condition:
Broken in many places and mended with some restoration.
Decoration Description:
On the inside of the vessel, the tondo is decorated with a glaze dot and two concentric circles, one broad and one narrow. On the outside, the decoration runs in a band at the handle zone.Side A: Five pairs of kneeling men and youths are depicted. Their hair, and the beards of the men, are painted red. All of them except the last figure on the left (head missing) hold fighting cocks under their arms or on their laps. The combs, wattles, wing coverts, necks, tail feathers, and bodies of the cocks are painted red. On the ground between the first couple on the left is a hare. Between the third and also the fourth pair is a hen. In the field around the figures are dots, suggesting pseudo inscriptions.
Side B: There are five pairs of kneeling males; all except the first on the left are holding cocks. The third pair from the left is two youths, and the fourth pair is a youth and bearded man. The head of one member of each of the other pairs is missing, but there remain two youths from the first and last couples and a bearded man from the second. The mock inscriptions in the field around the figures contain some actual letters.
Collection History:
John Wheelock Elliot Fund
Sources Used:
Other Bibliography:
RA (1974) 195-220Bulletin. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 64 (1966) 134, 136, fig. 14MFA Annual Report 1963, 42