object type / vase shape: attic black figure eye-cup type A (kylix)
<p>- description interior: Dionysos reclining in a war-ship, grape vine growing around the mast, 7 dolphins (compare the Homeric hymn to Dionysos)
- exterior A = B:  nose between eyes
- around the handles: 2 groups of 3 hoplites each fighting over fallen warrior
- production place: Athens
- potter: Exekias (signed around the foot: ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ)
- painter: Exekias
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 540-530 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 12.8 cm
- diameter: 30.4 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2044 (J 339) / NI 8729
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 146.21
- CVA München 13, plates 1-4
- Klaus Vierneisel,  Bert Kaeser, Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens, München 1990, figures 3.23, 9.12, 27.4, 55.1, 75.7
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 310403
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