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Scenes of sacrifice are rare in Greek art before the late 4th century BC. The warrior may be sacrificing the ram as a magical act before battle to save his own and his company's lives. A faded inscription, partly lost, does not identify the warrior; rather, it praises Chairias, probably an Athenian youth. Enough remains of the exterior of the cup to show that it was undecorated.
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108536
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Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram
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108536
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Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram
description
Scenes of sacrifice are rare in Greek art before the late 4th century BC. The warrior may be sacrificing the ram as a magical act before battle to save his own and his company's lives. A faded inscription, partly lost, does not identify the warrior; rather, it praises Chairias, probably an Athenian youth. Enough remains of the exterior of the cup to show that it was undecorated.
date
c. 490–480 BCE
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CC0
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en
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Q60779593
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Ceramic
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Diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.)
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Greek, Attic
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1926.242
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Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram, c. 490–480 BCE. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1926.242
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GR - Greek
didYouKnow
The artist has used added red pigment for the blood of the ram.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 9003650
citation
Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
page_number
P. 1570.12 (Chairias kalos); p. 1637.43bis (compare with work of Eucharides Painter).
citation
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. </em>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 23, Plate 37, I
citation
Allentown Art Museum, Gloria Ferrari, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. <em>Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979. </em>[Allentown, Pa.]: The Museum, 1979.
page_number
Pp. 76-77 (cat. 35).
citation
Van Straten, F. T.<em> Hierà Kalá: Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece</em>. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995.
page_number
Pp. 16, 219 ( V144), fig. 112.
citation
Immerwahr, Henry R. <em>A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI)</em>. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998.
page_number
p. 790, no. 3200
citation
Ekroth, Gunnel. "The Sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic Periods." Kernos Supplément 12 (2002).
page_number
p. 272, fig. 11
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Gebauer, Jörg. <em>Pompe und Thysia: Attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz</em>- und rotfigurigen Vasen. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.
page_number
p. 729, Fig.138
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<em>Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases from Gela. </em>Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004.
page_number
322.G77
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Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Organization). <em>Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum. </em>Basel: Fondation pour le lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae, 2004.
page_number
PL.22.GR359
citation
Flower, Michael A. <em>The Seer in Ancient Greece.</em> Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
page_number
p. 163, fig 14
citation
Hornblower, Simon. <em>A commentary on Thucydides</em>. Vol. 3, Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
page_number
p. 477, fig. 4
citation
Xenophon, Robert B. Strassler, and John Marincola. T<em>he Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation. </em>London: Quercus, 2011.
page_number
p. 134, Fig.4.2.23B
citation
Ekroth, Gunnel. "Castration, Cult and Agriculture: Perspectives on Greek Animal Sacrifice." <em>Opuscula Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome</em> 7 (2014).<strong><br></strong>
page_number
p. 160, Fig. 5
citation
Jameson, Michael H. <em>Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society</em>. 2015.
page_number
p. 115, Fig.6.1
citation
Oakley, John Howard. <em>A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases.</em> 2020.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 173, fig. 8.7
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 05:48:41.451000
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108536
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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