Kylix with Exploits of Theseus

Cecil Smith

doi:10.2307/623554

Kylix with Exploits of Theseus

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013

Cecil Smith

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The vase from which the designs on Plate X. are copied is a Kylix, or shallow two-handled cup, 5 inches high by 12¾ inches in diameter. It was acquired by the British Museum in 1850, together with other objects included in the sale of the collection of Dr. Emil Braun, who had procured it from the dealer Basseggio: in the sale catalogue it is stated to have been found at Vulci.

Notices of this vase have appeared in various works from time to time; Dr. Braun himself exhibited it at the Roman Instituto (Bulletino di Corr. Archeol. 1846, p. 106); Gerhard, in the Archäol. Zeitung for 1846, p. 289, described it briefly; and it is included in the Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, No. 824*. In publishing for the first time, so far as I am aware, an engraving of this magnificent vase, it may be worth while to add a more detailed description than has hitherto appeared.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 2 , November 1881 , pp. 57 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/623554 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1881

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^{page 57 note 1} On the bottom of the foot is a graffito incised,

^{page 58 note 1} i. 19, § 1.

^{page 59 note 1} Gurlitt, , Das Alter der Bildwerke des Theseions, pp. 42–44.Google Scholar

^{page 60 note 1} The same pattern occurs on the coins of Gnossos in Krete, where the scene of this myth was laid.

^{page 61 note 1} See the Panathenaic amphora in the Brit. Mus. Guide to second Vase Room, Pt. i. p. 13. Mon. Ined. di Corr. Arch. Rom. viii. 46.

^{page 62 note 1} Catalogue of Vases, No. 1428, engraved, Overbeck, Heroische Bildwerke, xiv. 9.

^{page 62 note 2} Iphigeneia (Iph. in Tauris, l. 28) says that Artemis snatched her away, leaving a hind in her place; from ll. 6–8, ibid. and a fragment of Euripides, we gather that the Greeks still imagined that they had sacrificed Iphigeneia; to their eyes, therefore, the maiden must for the moment have appeared so like the hind as to justify the idea of her actual transformation.