SIGNED BY PAMPHAIOS AS POTTER, CIRCA 520 B.C.

The red-figure technique was invented in Athens circa 530 B.C. or slightly earlier. A small number of vases produced during the last quarter of the 6th century B.C. employ both the older black-figure technique together with the new red-figure. For such vases Beazley coined the term "bilingual" (see p. 18 in B. Cohen, "Bilingual Vases and Vase-Painters," in Cohen, The Colors of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases).

This unusually large bilingual eye-cup is by the same as-yet unidentified artist who painted another eye-cup, also signed by Pamphaios as potter, now in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn (see Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 200236).