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Drinking cup (kylix) with satyr straddling a wineskin
Greek
Late Archaic Period
510–500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 7.6 cm (3 in.); diameter 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.34
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 005.
DescriptionInterior: A nude, ithyphallic satyr sits on a wine-skin, and holds a drinking horn (rhyton) in his left hand. He wears a wreath of ivy leaves painted in purple.
A Greek inscription in the field reads: "Hipparchos is handsome" (HIPPARXOS KALOS). On the wine-skin, in brown paint is an inscription of the same name: "HIPPARXOS."
The satyr is here engaged in a game called 'askoliasmos', derived from the Greek word for wineskin, 'askos', which invovled jumping on a blown up wineskin that was greased with oil and trying to hold one’s balance.
A Greek inscription in the field reads: "Hipparchos is handsome" (HIPPARXOS KALOS). On the wine-skin, in brown paint is an inscription of the same name: "HIPPARXOS."
The satyr is here engaged in a game called 'askoliasmos', derived from the Greek word for wineskin, 'askos', which invovled jumping on a blown up wineskin that was greased with oil and trying to hold one’s balance.
InscriptionsIn the field: "Hipparchos is handsome" (HIPPARXOS KALOS). On the wine-skin, in brown, HIPPLOXO
Interior:
ΗΙΠΠΑΡΧΟSΚΑLΟS
On the wine skin:
ΗΙΠΠAPΧΟΣ
Interior:
ΗΙΠΠΑΡΧΟSΚΑLΟS
On the wine skin:
ΗΙΠΠAPΧΟΣ
ProvenanceBy 1892: A. van Branteghem Collection (sold at Hotel Drouot auction, Paris, May 30 - June 1, lot 38; said to be from Italy); by 1894: with Edward Perry Warren; 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)