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Fragments of a kylix (drinking cup) depicting the reclamation of Helen (A); a fight scene (B),
ca. 490 BCE
attributed to Makron
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
y1990-20 a-b
Information
Title
Fragments of a kylix (drinking cup) depicting the reclamation of Helen (A); a fight scene (B)
Dates
ca. 490 BCE
Maker
attributed to Makron
Medium
Red-figure ceramic
Dimensions
Fragment a: preserved 20.3 x 30.5 cm (8 x 12 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
y1990-20 a-b
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Culture
Period
Purchased from Galerie Nefer, Zürich. Fragment y1990-54 was a gift from Dietrich von Bothmer. Fragment 1998-25 was acquired in an exchange with Rolf Blatter, Bolligen (Switzerland), who accepted another fragment by the Triptolemos Painter (y1985-61.4) in exchange.
Fragments of a Red-figure Kylix: A, Reclamation of Helen; B, Fight
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 41
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Norbert Kunisch, Makron, (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1997).
, p. 129,174; cat. no. 135; pI. 45 - Guy Michael Hedreen, Capturing Troy: the narrative functions of landscape in archaic and early classical Greek art, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001)., p. 48, 55-57; fig. 18
- J. Michael Padgett, et. al,The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), cat. no. 57
