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Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women

Black-figure Patras Painter · Kylix · c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising

Reassembled from 34 fragments, this cup bears ancient decoration that has been made more legible through modern repainting and re-incising, or re-scratching, of the internal details of figures and rosettes. Because they are irreversible and potentially misleading, such modern interventions are no longer seen as acceptable; when sold in 1922, the cup was described as “repaired,” albeit without additional explanation.

Shape

Kylix

Technique

Black-figure

Date

c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising

Culture

Greek, Corinthian

Painter

Patras Painter

Attribution

Attributed