3-047-541 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, about 510 BC. Wine Cup with a Youth and an Older Woman. Additional Info: Tondo: a crouching satyr with an erect phallus, long hair and a bushy beard holds two drinking vessels (kantharoi). He looks back over his shoulder. An inscription, Phintias painted [it], surrounds the figure. Exterior, A: a nude youth crouches and masturbates while holding the foot of a calyx krater before an older woman. She leans back, also holding the base of the krater, and cradling it against her outstretched right arm. Her hair is tied up in a cloth, an earring is evident in her left ear, and the painter has rendered fleshy folds on her belly and under her chin. Exterior B: two similar figures to those on side A, again engaged in sexual activity. A nude youth, this time with traces of hair on his cheeks, reclines while a nude woman grasps his penis with her right hand. She is in a crouched position over his legs, and though comparable in physical appearance to the woman on side A, does not wear a head cloth or earring. At the top, an inscription, E [...] A I E ? O, perhaps uttered by the youth (whose lips are parted and who gestures with his right hand). A single eye is rendered under each handle, flanked by palmettes. The eyes are facing toward side B.