Interior (black-figure), two birds and snake Exterior (red-figure), obverse, between eyes, Pegasos; reverse, between eyes, nose and the name Psiax
Several works by Psiax have inscriptions, and at least two identify him as painter. This is one of two cups on which hisname appears without a verb. Bilingual vases are particularly interesting because they juxtapose the old, black-figure, and the new, red-figure manner of decoration on the same piece.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to Psiax
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 520 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; bilingual
Dimensions:H. 5 in. (12.7 cm) diameter 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1914
Object Number:14.146.2
Signature: Psiax
Said to be from Bolsena
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. "Department of Classical Art: The Accessions of 1914." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10(2): p. 26.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. "Department of Classical Art Accessions of 1914: Athenian Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10(5): pp. 98, 100, fig. 1.
Richter, Gisela M. A., Marjorie J. Milne, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1922. Shapes of Greek Vases. New York.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 25, fig. 162, New York: Plantin Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 2, p. 17, pls. 2, 8, 179, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 64, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 9, 41, nos. 1 (p. 9), 38 (p. 41), Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1970. Perspective in Greek and Roman Art. p. 24, n. 1, fig. 90, New York and London: Phaidon Press.
Hedreen, Guy Michael. 2016. The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. pp. 207–9, fig. 35, New York: Cambridge University Press.
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