拍品 105
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYRISKOS PAINTER
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYRISKOS PAINTER

FIRST HALF OF 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYRISKOS PAINTER
FIRST HALF OF 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Each side with two 'Anacreontic' komasts, the bearded figures wrapped tightly in their himations, wearing earrings and turban-like headdresses, framed by borders of dotted zigzag and band of meander above, an inverted palmette below each handle, a graffito on the base, repaired with some restoration
13 7/8 in. (35.3 cm.) high
來源
Formerly in the collection of Ybe van der Wielen, Switzerland, acquired during the 1970s.
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拍品專文

It has been suggested that these 'Anacreontic' komasts (or more recently 'Booners') depicted on a distinctive group of Attic vases, are evidence of transvestite activity in Archaic and Classical Athens. They wore a costume comprising chiton, himation, mitra (turban-like headdress), boots and were often depicted with earrings and parasols. These distinctive bearded revellers in fancy dress are called 'Anacreontic' after the Greek lyric poet, Anacreon, who came to Athens from East Greece in the late 500s B.C. It has been argued that their clothing was part of a larger infiltration of East Greek art and ideas into Athenian culture beginning in the 520s B.C., and that it was suitable male attire in Lydia and the East Greek colonies. For further discussion of this subject, cf. D. C. Kurtz and J. Boardman, "Booners", Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 3, Malibu, 1986, pp. 35-70; and M. C. Miller, Re-examining Transvestism in Archaic and Classical Athens: The Zewadski Stamnos, American Journal of Archaeology, 103, no. 2, April 2000.