Attic Red-Figure Kylix Type B

The cup depicting a musician and women is complete, reconstructed from fragments. It was broken in antiquity and repaired through the center of the stem with a bronze rivet.

Interior: Within a stopped-meander with cross squares tondo, a youth in a himation stands to the right holding a tortoise-shell lyre in his extended right hand. On the wall behind hangs a flute case.

Exterior: Side A depicts a scene of depilation. On the left, a nude woman crouches and extends her arm toward the pubic area of the standing woman facing her. To the right a third nude woman strides to the left extending her left arm. In the center of the scene is a small table with a garment bunched up on top and on the wall above, an alabastron.
On Side B are three more women. On the left a nude woman holds an alabastron in her right hand and an exaleiptron in her extended right. The central woman is nude, facing left and has a himation draped over her right arm. The rightmost woman is draped in a chiton and himation and looks over her shoulder to the right while holding an alabastron in her extended right hand. Palmettes with ivy tendrils fill the space around the handles.