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A Kylix with a New ΚΑΛΟΣ Name

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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The vase figured on Plate XIII. is an Athenian cup in the possession of a member of the Hellenic Society, Mr. C. W. Mitchell, who acquired it in Athens. It is of the heavy, somewhat squat form, with thick handles and in-set lip, such as Brygos, for example, specially affected, and measures ·194 m. in diameter, ·096 m. in height. The design, occupying the centre of the interior only, is in the red colour of the clay, enclosed within a thin line, against the brilliant black glaze: unfortunately the parts of the surface which were not protected by the glaze have slightly suffered from the effects of acid or ignorant cleaning, so that the sketch-marks and the finer inner-markings have almost entirely disappeared: these latter were probably not extensively employed, but faint traces still remain at the lower part of the abdomen, and on the cheek, where the whiskers (, cf. Xen. Symp. iv. 23) are indicated by brushmarks in thinned black. The outline of the hair against the black background is indicated by a wavy engraved line; and where it shows against the neck and face, by a row of minute dots fringing the sharply defined edge of the black paint. The wreath of vine, the ties of the flute and mouthpiece case, and inscription () are in purple.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1896

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page 285 note 1 Within tho lower curves of this line the black paint has run thick, forming thus a row of circles which have the appearance, owing to the accumulation of colour, of being in relief: one sees how from an accident like this the practice may have arisen of indicating the outline, or even the entire surface of the hair (especially for figures of Heracles, cf. e.g. B. M. Vase Cat. vol. iii. E. 104) by rained black dots.

page 286 note 1 The method of drawing the drapery as failling in a series of heavy swelling folds over the shoulders is one that Euphronios particularly affected: the most beautiful example is of course that which occurs in the figure of Amphitrite on his Theseus cup in Paris.

page 286 note 2 Hartwig, loc. cit., mainly on account of the motive of the figure, puts this vase to the ‘Anfangspunkt’ of the activity of Phintias: but I venture to doubt whether this view can be accepted in face of a comparison with the cup here described.

page 287 note 1 Pherekydes, in Marcell, , vit. Thuc. 2Google Scholar.