| Collection: | University Museum, University of Pennsylvania |
| Summary: | Interior: walking komast |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Foundry Painter |
| Potter: | Attributed to Brygos |
| Context: | Possibly from Vulci |
| Date: | ca. 480 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.095 m., D. rim 0.237 m., D. foot 0.099 m. |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Kylix |
| Region: | Etruria |
| Period: | Late Archaic |
Condition:
The vase has been mended from numerous fragments, and the surface is worn, especially on side B.
Decoration Description:
Side A: three singing and dancing figures. The figures move to the right. A lyre player stands in the center, swaying backward, his face turned up, absorbed in the music. He plays a six-stringed lyre or barbatos, holding the bottom pressed into his side while he presses the strings with his left hand and plucks with his right. He is naked under the heavy cloak he wears draped over his shoulders. Behind him, on the left, a nude krotala dancer hops onto his left foot, drawing up the right. His arms swing out and his head is turned back. He carries krotala in both hands and a spotted pelt aulos case is hung over his forward, left forearm. His knobby staff is propped up beside the handle of the kylix. A second dancer on the right balances a banded skyphos in his left hand as he skips on his right foot, looking back toward his companions. He carries a knobby staff in his right hand which swings behind him. A short cloak hangs over his left forearm and behind his back. All three revelers wear fillets over their short, curly hair.
Side B: three komasts to the right. This side is damaged. The central figure is an older, bearded man with hair on his belly who is bent over holding pipes, though they are not raised to his lips. A heavy black-bordered cloak covers his left arm and swings in folds behind his back. He is followed by a dancer who carries a knobby staff in his right hand and a cloak in his forward extended left hand. He has just leapt onto his right foot and his left leg is bent at the knee. On the right another youth dances to the right looking toward the others on the left. He swings his arms, krotala in his hands. The lower half of his aulos case is preserved. His cloak is draped over both upper arms and he wears a fillet over his hair.
Tondo: walking komast. A komast holding a knobby staff is walking to the right, his head turned to face forward. A heavy cloak is draped over his extended left arm while his right arm, holding the staff, is held behind him. He is naked but wears soft leather shoes tied at the ankle. He has heavy thighs and a paunch, and his hair is short and curly.
Shape Description:
Type B kylix.
Collection History:
The cup was originally part of the collection of Prince Canino. It passed into the collection of James Jackson of Florence, thence into the Robert Coleman Collection, Philadelphia. In 1896 it was sold by Davis and Harvey to Phoebe A. Hearst who gave it to the University Museum, Philadelphia.
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