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Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
Creator
OltosPainter
All works by this person →As a vase-painter in Athens in the period from about 525 to 500 B.C., Oltos worked in red-figure in the early days of the technique. He also produced several bilingual cups with red-figure decoration on the exterior and black-figure on the interior, a type that was popular in this period. Although Oltos specialized in the decoration of cups, he produced a range of other shapes as well. Scholars ha
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 510–490 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c50096e8-61b5-4213-92a7-e927780c0bf9
From the Getty Museum record
Bowl fragment with start of stem preserved on underside. Interior: in the tondo, a partially preserved helmeted warrior carrying a spear to left. An inscription behind him: CMNO. The first preserved letter of the inscription might be a miswritten epsilon and, if so, the inscription could be restored to read: M]EMNO[NKALOS. The artist Oltos, who may have made this cup, favored the kalos name Memnon.
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