Fragment of a Kylix Tondo with Menelaus Claiming Helen by the Elpinikos Painter in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Drinking cup (kylix) with Menelaos reclaiming Helen
The Elpinikos Painter
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Dimensions: Length: 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line: Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Gift of the Archaeological Institute, University of Leipzig

Accession Number: 13.190

Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 007.

Description: Center of a kylix. Interior: Menelaos reclaiming Helen; within a thin circle a bearded warrior, wearing cuirass and Corinthian helmet leading a woman, wearing chiton with kolpos, himation and veil, to left. He grasps her right wrist, looks back and brandishes sword in right hand. In the field at left the Greek inscription: "Elpi[nik]os is handsome" (Elpi[nik]os kalos).
Ext.: Plain

Inscriptions: ΕLΠΙ[ΝΙΚ]ΟS ΚΑLΟS

Provenance: According to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol.1, p. 6, no. 7: From Cervetri.; by 1912: with Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, January 2, 1913, for $18,948.70 (this figure is the total price for MFA 13.186-13.245); in 1936 a fragment formerly in the collection of the University of Leipzig was joined to the MFA cup

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/153944/drinking-cup-kylix-with-menelaos-reclaiming-helen