Fragmentary bilingual kylix (drinking cup)

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Fragmentary bilingual kylix (drinking cup)

Artist: Attributed to Epiktetos as painter

Culture: Greek

Date: ca. 520-510 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta, black-figure and red-figure techniques

Dimensions:

h. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); w. 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm); d. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)

foot: diam. 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 2005.1.74.a-o

Provenance: sold by Peter Sharrer, Hillsdale, NJ, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1994; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005

Label Text

This cup is “bilingual,” meaning that it is decorated in the black-figure technique on the interior and in red-figure on the exterior. In the late 6th century B.C., a small number of bilingual vases were made by Athenian vase-painters. A single male figure occupies the interior of this cup. The exterior design originally consisted on each side of a single figure between a pair of palmettes and eyes. (Jessica Powers 2008)

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Fragmentary bilingual kylix (drinking cup)

Fragmentary bilingual kylix (drinking cup)