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Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram

c. 490-480 BC

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1926.242

Location

102B Greek

Description

Scenes of sacrifice are rare in Greek art before the late 4th century BC. The warrior may be sacrificing the ram as a magical act before battle to save his own and his company's lives.

Provenance

?-1926

Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1926-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 9003650 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Xenophon, Robert B. Strassler, and John Marincola. The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation. London: Quercus, 2011. p. 134, Fig.4.2.23B

Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 1570, No. 12

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 23, Plate 37, I

Van Straten, F. T. Hierà Kalá: Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. fig. 112

Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. p. 790, no. 3200

Gebauer, Jörg. Pompe und Thysia: Attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002. p. 729, Fig.138

Ekroth, Gunnel. "The Sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic Periods." Kernos Supplément 12 (2002). p. 272, fig. 11

Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases from Gela. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004. 322.G77

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Organization). Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum. Basel: Fondation pour le lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae, 2004. PL.22.GR359

Flower, Michael A. The Seer in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. p. 163, fig 14

Hornblower, Simon. A commentary on Thucydides. Vol. 3, Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. p. 477, fig. 4

Ekroth, Gunnel. "Castration, Cult and Agriculture: Perspectives on Greek Animal Sacrifice." Opuscula Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 7 (2014).
p. 160, Fig. 5 ecsi.bokorder.se

Jameson, Michael H. Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society. 2015. p. 115, Fig.6.1

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Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram

Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram

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