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CIRCA 490-475 B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE CALYX KRATER
CIRCA 490-475 B.C.
Side A: Herakles with bow and quiver slung over his shoulder, grasps Bousiris by the neck and holds sword to the king's body, the king seated on an altar with arms outstretched, an Egyptian attendant carrying sacrificial basket flees to the left with head turned back, meander and crossed square band below.
Side B: naked youth with lyre facing naked youth carrying staff, both with cloaks draped around their arms, band of meander below
Double band of ivy leaves under the rim
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 490-475 B.C.
Side A: Herakles with bow and quiver slung over his shoulder, grasps Bousiris by the neck and holds sword to the king's body, the king seated on an altar with arms outstretched, an Egyptian attendant carrying sacrificial basket flees to the left with head turned back, meander and crossed square band below.
Side B: naked youth with lyre facing naked youth carrying staff, both with cloaks draped around their arms, band of meander below
Double band of ivy leaves under the rim
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in a private collection, Basel, Switzerland; sold Sotheby's London, 1 July 1969, lot 93.
Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s.
Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s.
Literature
A.-F. Laurens, 'Bousiris', in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Zurich and Munich, 1988, III, p. 150, no. 25, pl. 25.
F. Lissarrague and F. Thelamon (eds.), Image et céramique grecques, Rouen, 1983, p. 163, fig. 11.
J.-L. Durand, Sacrifice et labour en Grèce ancienne, Paris, 1986, p. 115, fig. 35.
R. Etienne and M.-T. Le Dinahet, L'espace sacrificiel dans les civilisations méditerranéennes de l'antiquité, Paris, 1991, p. 55, fig. 11.
F. Lissarrague and F. Thelamon (eds.), Image et céramique grecques, Rouen, 1983, p. 163, fig. 11.
J.-L. Durand, Sacrifice et labour en Grèce ancienne, Paris, 1986, p. 115, fig. 35.
R. Etienne and M.-T. Le Dinahet, L'espace sacrificiel dans les civilisations méditerranéennes de l'antiquité, Paris, 1991, p. 55, fig. 11.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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