Kylix (eye cup)

Museum number:
8-898
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Accession number:
Acc.8
Description:
Attic black-figure kylix; reassembled from many fragments with some restoration in white plaster; interior: reserved tondo none of whose decoration remains; A-B: Dionysos (with ivy and rhyton) and maenad between eyes; at each side of handle, dancing satyr; under handle, slender lotus; on rim (white-ground), double row of ivy leaves.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Arthur L. Frothingham
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Kylikes and Satyrs
Accession date:
February 4, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Kylix (eye cup), accession number 8-898, described as Attic black-figure kylix; reassembled from many fragments with some restoration in white plaster; interior: reserved tondo none of whose decoration remains; A-B: Dionysos (with ivy and rhyton) and maenad between eyes; at each side of handle, dancing satyr; under handle, slender lotus; on rim (white-ground), double row of ivy leaves.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kylix (eye cup), accession number 8-898, described as Attic black-figure kylix; reassembled from many fragments with some restoration in white plaster; interior: reserved tondo none of whose decoration remains; A-B: Dionysos (with ivy and rhyton) and maenad between eyes; at each side of handle, dancing satyr; under handle, slender lotus; on rim (white-ground), double row of ivy leaves.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kylix (eye cup), accession number 8-898, described as Attic black-figure kylix; reassembled from many fragments with some restoration in white plaster; interior: reserved tondo none of whose decoration remains; A-B: Dionysos (with ivy and rhyton) and maenad between eyes; at each side of handle, dancing satyr; under handle, slender lotus; on rim (white-ground), double row of ivy leaves.

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