Drinking cup (kylix)
<p>Painter: Hermaios Painter (attributed by John D. Beazley)
Potter: Hermaios
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 520–510 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.); diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number 03.844
</p><p>CollectionsThe Ancient World
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 010.
DescriptionA youth in Thracian costume: animal-skin boots, chiton, embroidered chlamys, and hood with long lappets - riding a horse to left. Greek inscription in purple by the potter (beginning on the bottom edge of the tondo by the horse's front legs): "Hermaios made [it]" (HE[R]MA[IOS EPOIESE]N).
</p><p>Condition: Cup was cut down to size of interior tondo. Part of that and of foot missing.
Signed by the potter: "Hermaios made [it]" (HE[R]MA[IOS EPOIESE]N)
Inscriptions"Hermaios made [it]" (HE[R]MA[IOS EPOIESE]N)
ΗΕ[Ρ]ΜΑ[ΙΟS ΕΠΟΙΕSΕ]Ν
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>