Cup with Iris at an altar

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Cup with Iris at an altar

Artist: Attributed to the Eucharides Painter

Culture: Greek

Date: ca. 490-480 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique

Dimensions:

3 1/16 × 10 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (7.7 × 27.4 × 21.1 cm)

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

Object number: 86.134.60

Inscribed: In the tondo, beneath Iris's proper right wing: ΚΑΛΟΣ (kalos, written vertically and in retrograde)

Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, London, July 13-14, 1981, lot 275 to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986

Published References Sotheby's London, 13-14 July 1981, lot 275 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) vol. 5, p. 745, s.v. Iris, no. 22 and pl. 486 H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 146, no. 72

Label Text

Iris, a winged messenger of the gods, stands next to a flaming altar. She holds the kerykeion (or caduceus), the messenger’s token, in her right hand and a writing tablet in her left. Below her right wing is written the Greek word kalos, meaning “handsome” or “beautiful.” (Jessica Powers 2008)

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Cup with Iris at an altar

Cup with Iris at an altar