Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment from Red-Figure Kylix: Nereus(?) and Nereid

Pistoxenos Painter

Date

c. 470–460 BCE

Medium

ceramic

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Broken from the rim and bowl of a drinking cup, this fragment shows a woman looking back and moving away from a bearded man. Because she holds a dolphin, she is likely a Nereid, or sea nymph. The man may be her father, Nereus, although he is usually shown with white hair and beard (appropriately, for he is often called “Old Man of the Sea”). Nereus, a god of the sea, had 50 daughters, known as Nereids.

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