Location

102B Greek

Fun Fact

The artist has used added red pigment for the blood of the ram.

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. A faded inscription, partly lost, does not identify the warrior; rather, it praises Chairias, probably an Athenian youth. Enough remains of the exterior of the cup to show that it was undecorated.

Provenance

?-1926

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

1926-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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

Allentown Art Museum, Gloria Ferrari, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979. [Allentown, Pa.]: The Museum, 1979. Pp. 76-77 (cat. 35).

Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. P. 1570.12 (Chairias kalos); p. 1637.43bis (compare with work of Eucharides Painter).

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. Pp. 16, 219 ( V144), 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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Greek, Attic

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