id: 142227 accession number: 1965.78 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.78 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:19.500000 Siana Cup (Black-Figure Kylix [Drinking Cup]): Horseman and Warriors, 575–550 BC. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; diameter: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.); overall: 14.1 cm (5 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edgar A. Hahn 1965.78 title: Siana Cup (Black-Figure Kylix [Drinking Cup]): Horseman and Warriors title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 575–550 BC creation date earliest: -575 creation date latest: -550 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Gift of Edgar A. Hahn copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.); Overall: 14.1 cm (5 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1965 opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Conde de Lagunillas, Havana, Cuba date: footnotes: citations: Edgar A. Hahn, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1965 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1965- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Siana cups take their name from a cemetery in Rhodes where many were first found. digital description: Two kneeling warriors do battle in the tondo of this large drinking cup, red blood streaming from their wounded legs. Without labels or attributes, their identities remain uncertain—perhaps Eteokles and Polyneikes, the cursed sons of Oedipus. The exterior figures are anonymous, although many are accompanied by small dots probably meant to imitate letters (for identifying inscriptions). On one side, a warrior is greeted by a nude youth holding a garland, with a horseman, a flying eagle, and several men observing. On the other, a bearded man rides a rearing horse, flanked by six draped men. Waterbirds stand beneath the handles. wall description: The group of early figure-decorated cups of this type is named after a cemetery in Rhodes where many of them were found. In the 6th century, some Attic (Athenian) workshops started making small vases in order to compete in the commercial export market. They copied the popular miniaturist syle of Corinthian ware (see Corinthian Lekythos 1915.532). Front: A horseman is approached by three men on both sides. The inscriptions are decorative nonsense. Within the tondo are two kneeling warriors, possibly Eteokles and Polyneikes, sons of Oedipus, engaged in combat. Beneath each handle is a water bird. Back: A naked man greets a striding warrior. To the right is a horseman and a flying eagle. On the left four men wearing himations (cloaks) approach. The inscriptions are decorative nonsense. Beneath each handle is a water bird. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 758 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/0C36A7A2-E389-4CD2-ACCD-4C0B5D39CDD3 "Annual Report for 1965." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 6 (1966): 137-71. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152106 Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 14, Plates 20,3 & 21 & 22,2 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={0C36A7A2-E389-4CD2-ACCD-4C0B5D39CDD3}&startRef= Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. page number: p. 791, no. 3203 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.78/1965.78_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.78/1965.78_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.78/1965.78_full.tif