id: 108536 accession number: 1926.242 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.242 updated: Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram, c. 490–480 BC. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1926.242 title: Fragmentary Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Warrior Sacrificing Ram title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 490–480 BC creation date earliest: -495 creation date latest: -475 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Ancient Art of Greece and Rome opening date: 1979-09-16T04:00:00 Ancient Art of Greece and Rome. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (organizer) (September 16-December 29, 1979). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1926 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1926- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The artist has used added red pigment for the blood of the ram. digital description: Scenes of sacrifice are rare in Greek art before the late 4th century BC. The warrior may be sacrificing the ram as a magical act before battle to save his own and his company's lives. A faded inscription, partly lost, does not identify the warrior; rather, it praises Chairias, probably an Athenian youth. Enough remains of the exterior of the cup to show that it was undecorated. wall description: Scenes of sacrifice are rare in Greek art before the late 4th century BC. The warrior may be sacrificing the ram as a magical act before battle to save his own and his company's lives. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 9003650 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/AB9733F1-46D2-4F47-B387-60CA56F590C5 Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. page number: P. 1570.12 (Chairias kalos); p. 1637.43bis (compare with work of Eucharides Painter). url: Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 23, Plate 37, I url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={AB9733F1-46D2-4F47-B387-60CA56F590C5}&startRef= Allentown Art Museum, Gloria Ferrari, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979. [Allentown, Pa.]: The Museum, 1979. page number: Pp. 76-77 (cat. 35). url: Van Straten, F. T. Hierà Kalá: Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. page number: Pp. 16, 219 ( V144), fig. 112. url: Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. page number: p. 790, no. 3200 url: Ekroth, Gunnel. "The Sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic Periods." Kernos Supplément 12 (2002). page number: p. 272, fig. 11 url: Gebauer, Jörg. Pompe und Thysia: Attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002. page number: p. 729, Fig.138 url: Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases from Gela. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004. page number: 322.G77 url: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Organization). Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum. Basel: Fondation pour le lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae, 2004. page number: PL.22.GR359 url: Flower, Michael A. The Seer in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. page number: p. 163, fig 14 url: Hornblower, Simon. A commentary on Thucydides. Vol. 3, Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. page number: p. 477, fig. 4 url: Xenophon, Robert B. Strassler, and John Marincola. The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation. London: Quercus, 2011. page number: p. 134, Fig.4.2.23B url: Ekroth, Gunnel. "Castration, Cult and Agriculture: Perspectives on Greek Animal Sacrifice." Opuscula Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 7 (2014).
 page number: p. 160, Fig. 5 url: https://ecsi.bokorder.se/ShowArticle.aspx?id=2648#.XmlBdqhKjcs Jameson, Michael H. Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society. 2015. page number: p. 115, Fig.6.1 url: Oakley, John Howard. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases. 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 173, fig. 8.7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.242/1926.242_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.242/1926.242_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.242/1926.242_full.tif