Description

Kylix of pottery decorated in red figure, painted with a hoplite slaying a fallen Persian inside, and a Greek and mounted Persian battle scene outside: Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Greek, Attic, by the Triptolemos painter, 5th century BC, c. 460 BC

Museum reference

A.1887.213

Physical description

Earthenware, red figure decoration on a black ground

References

Catalogue of a collection ... presented by Sir Hugh Hume-Campbell / C.H. Smith - Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1887, p. 16 & 17, pl. II & I

Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Bluthezeit des strengen rothfigurigen Stiles / Paul Hartwig - Spemann, Stuttgart, 1893, pp. 515 - 519, pl. LV & LVI, 1

Attic Red-figure Vase Painters / J.D. Beazley - O.U.P., 1942, p. 244, no. 13

Attic red-figure vase-painting / J.D. Beazley - 2nd ed. - O.U.P., 1963, vol. I, p. 364

Greece: a short history / Mary Agnes Hamilton - O.U.P., Oxford, 1926, p. 77 (line illus.)

Attic Black-Figure Lekythoi / C.H.E. Haspels - Paris, 1936

Athenian Red Figure Vases of the Archaic Period / J. Boardman - London, 1975, figs. 303.1 & 2, and p. 140

Grieschische Historienbilder des 5 und 4 Jahrhunderts v. Chr. / T. Holscher - Wurzburg, 1973, fig. 3, and pp. 38 & 41 - 44

Greece and the Sea: exhibition catalogue De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 1987 / Angelos Delivorrias (ed) - Benaki Museum Athens, 1987, p. 193, no. 91

Image and Idea in Fifth-century Greece: Art and Literature after the Persian Wars / E.D. Francis - London, 1990, fig. 11, and p. 39

Attische Vasenmaker / J.D. Beazley - 1925, 153, a iii, 2

Bulletin de correopondance hellenique 87 / A. Bovon - 1963, 582, fig. 4

Antike kunot 17 / T. Holscher - 1974, pl. 19

Athenische Mitteilungen 90 / K. Schauenborg - 1975, 110, pl. 35.2 & 36.1, 2

Pfeil und Bogen in Antiken Greckenland / Tolle-Kastenbien - 1980, 111 - 112, fig. 23, pl. 56

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum / Elizabeth Moignard - GB Fascicule 16, Edinburgh, 1989, p. 24, pl. 23.7 & 23.8

The Defence of Greece 490 - 479 B.C. / J.F. Lazenby - Warminster, 1993, 78

Geschichte und Geocheken A4 - Stuttgart, 1997, p. 290, pl. 2

Rahe, P (2015) The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge. Yale

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, (eds.) Spier, J., Potts, T., and Cole, S.E., (2022), p.54

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