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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting palaistra scenes

Drinking cup (kylix) depicting palaistra scenes

Penthesilea Painter
about 460 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.);
Diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number28.48
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
Inscriptions"The boy is handsome" (once on interior and four times on exterior; all are misspelled)ProvenanceKnown in the 1750s and published by Mazochius in In Regii Herculanensis Musaei aeneas tabulas Heracleenses commentarii, 1754-1758; published by Inghirami, in 1824 in Mon etr. 5, pl. 69-70 (as being in the Museo degli studi, Naples); by 1928: Seltman Collection; purchased by MFA from Seltman, March 1, 1928, for $1,399.88
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