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Source Description
This red-figure kylix depicts a youth to the left in a bell-krater in the tondo. Around his head is a wreath.The sides of the kylix depict three athletes. On the left, two youths bend over washing themselves in a laver (louterion). On the back, their lower arms almost totally disappear into the vessel, while on the front the left youth has the right arm out and bent by his side. On the right of the front, another youth stands to the right, while on the back the third youth stands to the left gesticulating. All wear wreaths.
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Document identity
localId
40195
label
Kylix Depicting a Standing Youth and Two Youths Bathing
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obj
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object
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4
Source metadata
id
40195
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Kylix Depicting a Standing Youth and Two Youths Bathing
description
This red-figure kylix depicts a youth to the left in a bell-krater in the tondo. Around his head is a wreath.The sides of the kylix depict three athletes. On the left, two youths bend over washing themselves in a laver (louterion). On the back, their lower arms almost totally disappear into the vessel, while on the front the left youth has the right arm out and bent by his side. On the right of the front, another youth stands to the right, while on the back the third youth stands to the left gesticulating. All wear wreaths.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [cat. no. 236]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 510 BC (Early Classical)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
kylikes
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4
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4
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
12.4
height
41.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 7/8 x Diam with handles: 16 5/16 in. (12.4 x 41.5 cm); Diam at mouth: 13 1/16 in. (33.1 cm); Diam at foot: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Source extras
style
Attic
inscriptions
[Transcription] In the tondo running nearly parallel with the cirdular border around the top of the picture: ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ; [Transcription] On the sides running nearly parallel with and a little below the rim: ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ
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terracotta
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3627
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GRC
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none
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