Singing a Song
Scene of Symposium. A young man, reclining over a kline, is holding a skyphos in his left hand and a sprig in the other. His head is slightly tilted back, and the letters Π Ι Λ Ε Κ Α Ι come from his open mouth: according the conventional iconography of the time he is singing a song.
Attic red-figured kylix
Made in Athens by the Brygos Painter
500 – 450 BC
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco
Singing a Song
Scene of Symposium. A young man, reclining over a kline, is holding a skyphos in his left hand and a sprig in the other. His head is slightly tilted back, and the letters Π Ι Λ Ε Κ Α Ι come from his open mouth: according the conventional iconography of the time he is singing a song.
Attic red-figured kylix
Made in Athens by the Brygos Painter
500 – 450 BC
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco