object type / vase shape: attic red figure cup (kylix)
<p>- description: interior: bearded komast with kylix and stick
- exterior side A and B: symposion of 6 bearded men reclining on klinai, served by 3 cup-bearers, cups and oinochoai hanging on the background; inscriptions: KALOS KALOS
- production place: Athens
- potter: Python
- painter: Douris, signed on the interior: DORIS EGRAPHSEN (middle work)
- period / date: late archaic, transition to early classical, ca. 485-480 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 12,5 cm; diameter (without handles): 31,5 cm
- findspot: Vulci, Cavalupo area E
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1843,1103.15 Cat. Vases E 49
(including a fragment in Rome, Villa Giulia)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 432, 52
- Diana Buitron-Oliver, Douris: a master painter of red-figure vases, Mainz 1995, cat. 96
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