Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser

ID:

aa_4315

Beazley Number:

275025

Type:

Vase

Date:

ca. -520

Period:

Late Archaic

Painter:

Attributed to Oltos

Potter:

Attributed to Hischylos

Dimensions:

H. 0.131 m., D. 0.325 m.

Ware:

Attic Bilingual

Shape:

Kylix

Shape Description

Cup Type A. Characteristic of the potter Hischylos is the narrow raised ridge running around the perimeter of the foot's undersurface.

Decoration Description

Tondo: in black figure, a bearded man runs to right looking back over his shoulder. He wears a himation with added red stripes. Added red is also used for the beard and hair. Written in the field is *M*E*M*N*O*N *K*A*L*O*S. The exterior is in red figure. Side A: eyes with wreathed running youth between. Side B: eyes with nose between. Palmettes appear near the handles.

Graffiti

*M*E*M*N*O*N *K*A*L*O*S, in field of interior.

Collection:

Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum

From the collection of Molly and Walter Bareiss.

Citations and Bibliography

Bareiss Collection 1983, no. 26, 40-42.