The scene on the interior shows Athena leading Herakles to the enthroned Zeus. A boar occupies the exergue below.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to the Boreads Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 570–560 BCE
Culture:Greek, Laconian
Medium:Terracotta
Dimensions:H. 3 15/16 in. (10 cm); diameter 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1950
Accession Number:50.11.7
From after 1928 and until 1950, collection of Dr. Ludwig Curtius, Director of the German Archaeological Institute (1928-1938), Rome; [by 1950, with Robert E. Hecht, Jr.]; acquired in 1950, purchased from Robert E. Hecht, Jr.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1951. "Report of the Trustees for the Year 1950." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10(1): p. 22.
Shefton, Brian. 1954. "Three Laconian Vase-painters." Annual of the British School at Athens, 49: no. 4, p. 300, pls. 50–51a.
Schauenburg, Konrad. 1958. "Die Totengötter in der unteritalischen Vasenmalerei." Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 73:
Pelagatti, Paola. 1958. "Kylix laconica con Eracle e le Amazzoni." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 82: pp. 491–93, fig. 9.
Rolley, Claude. 1959. "Le peintre des cavaliers." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 83(1): p. 283.
Carroll, Diane Lee. 1965. "Patterned textiles in Greek Art: A Study of their Designs in Relationship to Real Textiles and to Local and Period Styles. PhD Thesis.." Ph.D. Diss. no. 233, p. 318. University of California, Los Angeles.
Kyrieleis, Helmut. 1969. "Throne und Klinen." Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 24: no. 12, pp. 182–84.
Stibbe, Conrad M. 1972. Lakonische Vasenmaler des sechsten Jahrhunderts v. Chr.. no. 140, pl. 44, 1–3, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.
Raab, Irmgard. 1972. Zu den Darstellungen des Parisurteils in der griechischen Kunst. no. 38, p. 205, Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang.
Schefold, Karl. 1978. Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst. p. 50, fig. 52, München: Hirmer Verlag.
Venit, Marjorie. 1985. "Laconian Black Figure in Egypt." American Journal of Archaeology, 89(3): p. 393 n. 19.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4: Eros-Herakles. "Hera," p. 714, no. 459, pl. 433, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Hecht Robert. 2014. Bob Hecht by Bob Hecht, Geraldine Norman, ed. p. 5 n. 10.
Jiang, An. 2016. "Karneia and Kitharoidos: Rereading a Laconian Cup in the Michael C. Carlos Museum." The Consumers' Choice: Uses of Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery, Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture, Vol. 2, Thomas H. Carpenter, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, and Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, eds. pp. 29–30, fig. 9, Boston: Archaeological Institute of America.
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