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Drinking cup (kylix)

Greek
Eearly Classical Period
470-460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.869a-d
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

DescriptionDecoration Description: Death of Priam. Close to the Clinic Painter (School of Makron).
(a) Head of Priam whom Neoptolemos seizes with left hand.
(b) From lip of vase. Doric capital supporting triglyph frieze.
(c) Part of a wall, from right of design. (Two pieces joined)
(d) At top: rim of kylix. At left, end of bunch of woman's hair. At the bottom, part of an arm (?) At right, perhaps a tripod (?)
ProvenancePurchased of E. P. Warren; bought in Rome