| Collection: | University Museum, University of Pennsylvania |
| Summary: | Side A: three seated women |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Name vase of the Painter of Philadelphia 2449 |
| Potter: | Attributed to Hieron |
| Context: | From Chianciano, Italy |
| Date: | ca. 480 BC - ca. 470 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.090 m., D. bowl 0.232 m., D. foot 0.085 m. |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Kylix |
| Period: | Early Classical |
Condition:
The cup has been mended from many fragments. There is some abrasion of the surface on the reserved areas.
Decoration Description:
Side A: three seated women. Two women seated on klismoi make music while a third seated woman listens. All three are dressed in chiton and himation and sphendones. The central woman sits facing left holding a faded wreath in her raised hands. She wears her hair in a sakkos. The figure on the left, facing right, is an aulist. She has paused in her playing and holds the two pipes in her extended hands. Her long hair is pulled back and bound in a soft cloth knot behind her back. Around her head is a headband with a row of leaves and berries along its upper edge. One long strand of hair falls down the front of her arm. The third woman on the right holds two pair of krotala. She is seated facing left and has her hair in a decorative sakkos bound by black ties. She wears a large round earring with pendent dangles. A spotted skin aulos case hangs on the wall between the left-hand woman and the central woman.
Side B: two seated and one standing women. All three wear chitons, mantles and sakkoi bound by elaborate ties. The central woman is walking to the left holding a mirror and looking back at the woman on the right, her left hand swinging behind her. Her mantle has a wide black border. The other two women sit facing her on klismoi. The woman on the left holds a flower in each hand. Her blond hair shows beneath her sakkos. The woman on the right holds a leafy wreath. Krotala hang on the wall between the central woman and the woman seated on the right.
Interior: woman before a chest. An elegant woman stands facing left, opening a chest with her right hand, a flat box balanced on her left hand and forearm. She is clad in a finely pleated chiton and a heavier mantle, draped to pile in stiff, steeply stacked folds at the neck and into a crescent-shaped catenary below her left hand. Her hair is covered by a decorative cloth cap. She wears a necklace and a round, dangling earring. The wooden chest is located on the far left and is partially open. It is supported by animal paw feet resting on a low base. The rim of the chest is decorated with alternating dark and light rectangles, and the body with two sunburst motifs. The small box carried by the woman is decorated in the same manner. There is a retrograde inscription on the right.
Shape Description:
Type B kylix.
Inscriptions:
There is a retrograde inscription on the interior.
Collection History:
The cup originally belonged to the Coleman Collection (C215). It was purchased through Davis and Harvey by Phoebe A. Hearst who gave it to the University Museum, Philadelphia.
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