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Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king.
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156774
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Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)
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156774
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Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)
description
Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king.
date
c. 460–450 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60747064
creators
40675
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
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Greek, Attic
accession
1992.369
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Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros), c. 460–450 BCE. Attributed to Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frances W. Ingalls, 1992.369
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GR - Greek
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inscription
didYouKnow
An inscription identifies this woman as Aglauros, an Athenian princess.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
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BAPD 214656
citation
Brommer, Vasenlisten, 258, B 1, s.v. "A"; <em>Enciclopedia dell'arte antica classica e orientale</em> 1 (1958).
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p. 140
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Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
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p. 1108, no. 17.
citation
<em>Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae</em> (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981.
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286, no. 2
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"1993 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (1994).
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Mentioned: p. 158
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Neils, J. "Lost and Found," <em>CMA Members Magazine</em> (February 1995).
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p. 8-9
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Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
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p. 33, pl. 70
citation
Mannack, Thomas. <em>The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase-Painting</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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P. 25, Fig. 4.1, p. 138, N. 17.
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Gift of Frances W. Ingalls
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2026-05-29 08:08:58.039000
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156774
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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male
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