Inventory number
GL II.439
Artist
The Pistoxenos Painter
Category
Vessel
Period
Classical Period
Date
Around 470 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.13 m
Diameter: 0.325 m
Material
Clay
Location
First Floor Case 29, No 1
White-ground kylix found in February 1888 in the fill formed before the Acropolis' south wall.
The interior is decorated with the killing of Orpheus by frenzied Thracian women. Orpheus, wounded by one of them has kneeled on the ground trying to defend himself by raising his guitar. In one hand the woman holds an axe and with the other her opponent’s forearm, while she has pinned him down with her leg so he cannot escape. The vase-painter has used red, yellow and black colour and added golden paint, now lost, had been applied to render further details. On the pot’s exterior Thracian men and horses are depicted.
The male figure on the interior is identified by the inscription ΟΡΦΕΥΣ. The surviving letters of the other fragments of the vessel are most likely restored in the following inscriptions: Γ[ΛΑΥΚ]ΟΝ [ΚΑΛΟΣ (?)] and [ΕΥΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ(?) ΕΠ]ΟΙΕΣΕΝ, which mean that “Glaukos was handsome” and “potter Euphronios made this vase”.
Η ανδρική μορφή αναγνωρίζεται από την επιγραφή ΟΡΦΕΥΣ. Από τα γράμματα που διατηρούνται στα άλλα θραύσματα του αγγείου η πιθανότερη αποκατάσταση των επιγραφών είναι: Γ[ΛΑΥΚ]ΟΝ [ΚΑΛΟΣ (;)] και [ΕΥΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ(;) ΕΠ]ΟΙΕΣΕΝ, δηλαδή «ο Γλαύκος είναι όμορφος» και «ο κεραμέας Ευφρόνιος το έφτιαξε».
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