English: object type / vase shape: attic black figure eye-cup type A (kylix)

- description interior: Dionysos reclining in a war-ship, grape vine growing around the mast, 7 dolphins (compare the Homeric hymn to Dionysos) - exterior A = B: nose between eyes - around the handles: 2 groups of 3 hoplites each fighting over fallen warrior - production place: Athens - potter: Exekias (signed around the foot: ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ) - painter: Exekias - period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 540-530 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 12.8 cm - diameter: 30.4 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2044 (J 339) / NI 8729 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 146.21 - CVA München 13, plates 1-4 - Klaus Vierneisel, Bert Kaeser, Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens, München 1990, figures 3.23, 9.12, 27.4, 55.1, 75.7 - Beazley Archive Pottery Database 310403

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