Symposium
The external surface of this cup shows three reclining men; a man is drinking wine from a kylix, a second one is playing kottabos while a third is playing a lyre: this scene depicts the acme of the symposium. A basket and some pipes are suspended on the walls.
The kylix inner surface shows an example of an unhappy end of a symposium: an intoxicated man is vomiting into a basin.
Inside a large band, in the lower part of the external surface, the silhouettes of some drinking tools are depicted: skyphoi, kylikes, oinochoai, kantharoi, and stamnoi.
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red-figured kylix
Height 10.6 cm; diameter 31 cm;
Attributed to Douris
ca. 490-480 a.C.
from Vulci, Etruria
Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Inv. no. 16561
Symposium
The external surface of this cup shows three reclining men; a man is drinking wine from a kylix, a second one is playing kottabos while a third is playing a lyre: this scene depicts the acme of the symposium. A basket and some pipes are suspended on the walls.
The kylix inner surface shows an example of an unhappy end of a symposium: an intoxicated man is vomiting into a basin.
Inside a large band, in the lower part of the external surface, the silhouettes of some drinking tools are depicted: skyphoi, kylikes, oinochoai, kantharoi, and stamnoi.
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red-figured kylix
Height 10.6 cm; diameter 31 cm;
Attributed to Douris
ca. 490-480 a.C.
from Vulci, Etruria
Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Inv. no. 16561