Kylix (Drinking Cup)

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

510-500 BCE

Manner of the Epeleios Painter
Greek; Athens

On the interior of this drinking cup, within a line border, a satyr stands to the right, bending slightly at the knees, both arms outstretched in front of him (the fragment that might have shown what he was holding is lost). In the field is written ho[pais]kalo[s] (retrograde). On one side of the exterior, Theseus hobbles the Bull of Marathon; there is a tree in the background. This group is flanked on left and right by duels between naked warriors. In the field is written h[o]pais. On the other side of the exterior, there is, on the left, a duel between two naked warriors (shield device of the falling warrior is a snake; there is red blood under his armpit). In the centre is a naked warrior with a horse to the right. Beyond this, on the right, is a warrior with shield and spear facing to the right and a warrior (helmet up) to the left, stooping to take his shield out of its covering. In the field is written h[o]pais [ka]los.

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Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Artist: Epeleios Painter
Title: Kylix (Drinking Cup)
Place: Attica (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 510 BCE–500 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 14 × 40.3 × 31.1 cm (5 1/2 × 15 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.111
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William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat’y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 20 (no. 12).
Art Institute of Chicago. Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (The Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 41, no. 336.
Daniel Catton Rich, “A Kylix in the Style of “The Bonn Painter,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 23, 8 (November 1929), pp. 130-131, 140 (illus.).
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1963), p. 148, no. 4.
F. Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechsiche Heldensage (3rd ed., Marburg 1973), p. 254 no. 22.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Early Greek Art, A Preview, Part One, Gallery 101A, September 1, 1988 – May 24, 1989.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, At Home in the Museum, Betty Rymer Gallery, May 15, 1998 - June 24, 1998.

Augusto Alberici, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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