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Attic Black-Figure Siana Cup Fragment

Date

about 570–560 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Exterior: A (86.AE.156.1) boar hunt (perhaps the Calydonian Boar). The boar is wounded by a spear and collapses to right. It is attacked by a man and two youths. The man wears a fillet, and carries his wrap over his left arm. The youths are naked, save for the fillet preserved on the head of the first. The three hunters wield spears, and a black dog has jumped on the boar’s back, sinking its hind claws into the animal’s flank. Blood flows from the boar’s wounds, and its mouth is open, with tongue visible. At the left of the fragment, a white dog, leaping, biting and clawing at the boar's hindquarters. This dog is overlapped by the leg of a male to right who attacks with a trident. Above and behind the dog on the boar's back, strings of letters. The fragment belongs with a second (86.AE.156.2), and comes from a cup that has a deep bowl, with an offset lip. There is a reserved line within the lip; the edge is black. One thick black line runs around the exterior, just below the offset of the lip. Below the figures, there is a broad black band, then four lines. The bottom of the bowl is black. Adapted from A. Clark, CVA Malibu 2 (1990).

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