Drinking cup (kylix) with erotic scene
Greek, Late Archaic Period, about 480 B.C.
DourisPlace of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece
Height: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); diameter: 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Ceramic, Red Figure
Inscriptions: “the girl is pretty” (HE PAIS KALE) (above their heads), and “Hold still!”(HEXE HESUXOS) (issuing from the man’s mouth)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Teehee :)
This photo was in a lecture we had a few months back :)
