Kylix by Onesimos in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a man holding a basket, a pot and a staff

Greek, Late Archaic Period, about 485–480 B.C.

Onesimos

Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: Height: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); diameter: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Classification: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 081.

Accession Number: 95.29

Interior: A bearded, wreathed man with short, curly hair and a receding forehead and a snub nose, leans over with left knee bent, and carries in his right hand a large cauldron inscribed in Greek "the boy" (HO PAIS) and in his right hand he holds a basket and staff. In field inscribed "the boy is handsome" (HOPAIS KALOS).

Exterior side A: Horse standing beside a tree, a hat of skin hangs on a branch. On either side of the horse ia a youth, one nude, the other wrapped in a himation. The nude boy is holding the horse's reigns.

Exterior side B: Two horses face to face. A youth between them.

Condition: Side B is much damaged. Considerably restored.


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