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Source Description
This shape of drinking-cup is called a "mastos" and resembles a woman's breast. On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a clothed one in a similar scene. Beneath the horizontal handle stands a siren, a mythical creature with a woman's head and a bird's body, whose powers included knowledge of the outcome of battles.
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Document identity
localId
38598
label
Mastos with Combat Scenes
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obj
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object
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5
Source metadata
id
38598
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Mastos with Combat Scenes
description
This shape of drinking-cup is called a "mastos" and resembles a woman's breast. On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a clothed one in a similar scene. Beneath the horizontal handle stands a siren, a mythical creature with a woman's head and a bird's body, whose powers included knowledge of the outcome of battles.
provenance
Sale, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, objets d'art et de haute curiosit'e, importantes tapisseries : composant la collection Engel-Gros, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 38 [illust.]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1921, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 530 BCE (Archaic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
cups (drinking vessels)
mastoi
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5
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5
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.3
height
18.2
depth
13.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 11/16 x W: 7 3/16 x Diam: 5 3/16 in. (9.3 x 18.2 x 13.2 cm)
Source extras
cul
Greek
style
Attic
med
terracotta; black figure
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6256
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GRC
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2089
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