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<b>Image:</b> London, British Museum, 1836,0224.145.
<b>Image:</b> London, British Museum, 1836,0224.145. Illustration from Jahn, O. 1861. ''Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern''. Leipzig. (pl. 3)


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<b>Object description:</b> Red figure ''kylix'' (wine cup) showing Anacreon and two dancing youths.
 
From Jahn, O. 1861. Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern Leipzig (pl. 3)
 
<b>Object description:</b> Red figure kylix (wine cup) showing Anacreon and two dancing youths.


<b>Object Archaeology:</b> Vulci, Lazio
<b>Object Archaeology:</b> Vulci, Lazio


<b>Inscriptions:</b> Interior: ΚΑΛΟΣ ΜΕΜΝΟΝ (καλός Μέμνων: “pretty Memnon”).  Exterior (Clockwise): ΛΥKOPIΣ (Λύκωπις: Lycopis); ΗΕΡΑΚΛΕΣ (Ἡρακλῆς: Heracles); ΑΝΑΚΡΕΟΝ (Ἀνακρέων: Anacreon); ΝΥΦΕΣ (?Νύμφης: Nymphes) (Jahn 1861: 756-60; Hartwig 1893: 89)
<b>Inscriptions:</b> Interior: ΚΑΛΟΣ ΜΕΜΝΟΝ (καλός Μέμνων: “pretty Memnon”).  Exterior (Clockwise): ΛΥKOPIΣ (Λύκωπις: Lycopis); ΗΕΡΑΚΛΕΣ (Ἡρακλῆς: Heracles); ΑΝΑΚΡΕΟΝ (Ἀνακρέων: Anacreon); ΝΥΦΕΣ (?Νύμφης: Nymphes) (Jahn 1861: 756-60; Hartwig 1893: 89).


<b>Restorations:</b> Many breaks restored.
<b>Restorations:</b> Many breaks restored.


<b>Dimensions:</b> Height: 13 centimetres. Diameter: 33 centimetres
<b>Dimensions:</b> Height: 13 centimetres. Diameter: 33 centimetres.


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 22:59, 6 November 2014

Oltos Anacreon.png

Image: London, British Museum, 1836,0224.145. Illustration from Jahn, O. 1861. Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern. Leipzig. (pl. 3)

Object description: Red figure kylix (wine cup) showing Anacreon and two dancing youths.

Object Archaeology: Vulci, Lazio

Inscriptions: Interior: ΚΑΛΟΣ ΜΕΜΝΟΝ (καλός Μέμνων: “pretty Memnon”). Exterior (Clockwise): ΛΥKOPIΣ (Λύκωπις: Lycopis); ΗΕΡΑΚΛΕΣ (Ἡρακλῆς: Heracles); ΑΝΑΚΡΕΟΝ (Ἀνακρέων: Anacreon); ΝΥΦΕΣ (?Νύμφης: Nymphes) (Jahn 1861: 756-60; Hartwig 1893: 89).

Restorations: Many breaks restored.

Dimensions: Height: 13 centimetres. Diameter: 33 centimetres.

Bibliography

Beazly, J. D. and Caskey, L. 1954. Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 2. Boston, Mass. 61.

Beazley, J. D. 1963. Attic Red Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford. 62-3.

Boardman, J. and Kurtz, D. C. 1986. “Booners”. In J. Frel and M. True eds., Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 3. Malibu, Calif. 35-70.

Hartwig, P. 1893. Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Blüthezeit des strengen rothfigurigen Stiles. Berlin. 89.

Jahn, O. 1861. Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern. Leipzig.

Price, S. D. 1990. "Anacreontic Vases Reconsidered". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 31 (2): 133-175.

Richter, G. M. A. 1965. The Portraits of the Greeks I. London. 76-77.

    • and Smith, R. R. R. 1984. The Portraits of the Greeks. London. 85.

Salskov Roberts, H. 2002. "Anakreon in the Pictorial Arts". In B. Amden ed., Noctes Atticae : 34 articles on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and its Nachleben : Studies Presented to Jøergen Mejer on his Sixtieth Birthday, March 18, 2002. Copenhagen. 241-253.

Schefold, K. and Bayard, A.-C. 1997. Die Bildnisse der Antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker. Basel. 76-79.