Kylix fragment

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Inventory number

GL II.355

Artist

The Stieglitz Painter

Category

Vessel

Period

Classical Period

Date

470-460 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.122 m
Length: 0.235 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 29, No 6

Description
Bibliography

Part of a red-figure kylix found in 1888 at the front of the Parthenon. It has been mended of fragments and restored.

The pot’s exterior is decorated with scenes from the Fall of Troy. Discerned are a figure fallen on the ground, a warrior who has just stabbed a woman and another warrior that drags along a captive woman. Moving to the viewer’s right depicted are also the killing of Priam by Neoptolemos and part of another figure that moves away from the scene. On the pot’s interior a supplicant is encircled in a medallion made of meander and crosses.

Two more fragments of the kylix, not exhibited, show Kassandra's rape by Ajax the Lesser and parts of other figures’ legs.

BAPD, Beazley Archive Pottery Database, www.beazley.ox.ac.uk, αρ. κατ. 210284
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Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st edition, Oxford, 1942, σελ. 546.1
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Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1963, σελ. 828.29
LIMC VII, Kassandra I, σελ. 963, αρ. κατ. 124
LIMC VΙΙΙ, Suplementum, Ilioupersis, σελ. 652, αρ. κατ. 10
Mangold, M., Kassandra in Athen, die Eroberung Trojas auf attischen Vasenbildern, Berlin, 2000, σελ. 128, 129, 163, 172, εικ. 65, αρ. κατ. I 38, II 53
Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art, Ann Arbor, 2001, σελ. 153, 154, 157, 225, εικ. 42
Stewart, A., «The Persian and Carthaginian Invasions of 480 B.C.E. and the Beginning of the Classical Style: Part 1, The Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Significance of the Acropolis Deposits», American Journal of Archaeology 112, 2008, σελ. 405, αρ. κατ. 3
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Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica, Rome, 2012, σελ. 363, αρ. κατ. ΙΙ.355