Fragment of a Kylix with a Youth Washing in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Fragment of drinking cup (kylix)

Greek, Late Archaic Period, about 510–500 B.C.

the Euergides Painter

Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: Length (max.): 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Classification: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 012.

Accession Number: 10.214

Interior of cup, part of tondo composition:

A nude youth, wreathed, bending over a shallow washing basin (louterion) set on a low column with Ionic capital. He has plunged his right hand into it to test the temperature of the water, while with a small jug in his left hand he is dipping up more water from a basin on the ground. The ground line is reserved; and the picture is bordered by a reserved circle. In the field at right, three letters of a Greek inscription, probably [P]AIS. Only the alpha is completely preserved.

Inscription: [Π]ΑΙS

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