ATTIC RED-FIGURED CUP (KYLIX)

510-500 B.C

Light tan-brown clay, semi-lustrous black gloss, thin red wash on reserved areas. Shallow bowl of segmental form, outcurved rim; two ?-shaped handles with round cross-section applied horizontally below rim, lifting up to rim level; stemmed foot with offset and discoid base with thick rounded edge. Body and foot black except for: inside handles, edge and resting area of foot, inside stem at center and tondo. Tondo: Warrior kneeling to left, looking back, nude, except for a kidaris (one flap hanging down across his right shoulder). There is a pelta to his right and another uncertain round object below. It has been suggested that it may be a discus (Moore M.M. The Athenian Agora, Attic Red- Figured and White-ground Pottery, vol. XXX. Princeton, N.J., 1997, cat. 1560). Reserved line for tondo border. Relief contour. Manner of the Pithos Painter. Broken in ancient time. Mended. H. 3.1″(7.9 cm), D. 6.4″(16.3 cm).

See: Moore M.M. The Athenian Agora, Attic Red- Figured and White-ground Pottery, vol. XXX. Princeton, N.J., 1997, cat. 1516, 1517, 1559,-60,-61; Beazley J.D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed., Oxford,139,7-10; 140,53; 141,68; 1963.