Sujet

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, about 490 BC. Creator: Onesimos.

Légende

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, about 490 BC. Wine Cup with a Woman Playing a Drinking Game. Additional Info: Scenes of revelry decorate this Athenian red-figure kylix or cup. On the interior, a nude woman reclines as she plays kottabos, a popular drinking game at the symposium (male drinking party). With one handle of a deep drinking cup (skyphos slipped over her index finger, she tries to flick the dregs from the bottom of the cup at a target some distance away. The sympotic theme continues on the exterior. On one side, youths dance with skyphoi and krotala (castanet-like instruments), and one appears to brandish a slipper. On the other, two more youths cavort and gesture around a woman who reclines on a cushion, playing krotala. She is nude but for the shoes on her feet and the fabric wrap upon her head. The symposium was a male event, and when women were present, they were there typically to entertain or otherwise attend to the participants. The nudity of the pair on this cup would have been inappropriate for respectable Athenian women, and they represent either enslaved women, hired as prostitutes, or hetaerae, women of independent means who augmented an evening’s drinking with their song, conversation, and sexual allure.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A02_380

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

189,4Mo (7,5Mo) / 78,0cm x 60,9cm / 9208 x 7188 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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