Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to Onesimos

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Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to Onesimos
Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to Onesimos

Scenes of revelry decorate this Athenian red-figure kylix or cup. On the interior, a nude woman reclines as she plays kottabos, a popular drinking game at the symposium (male drinking party). With one handle of a deep drinking cup (skyphos) slipped over her index finger, she tries to flick the dregs from the bottom of the cup at a target some distance away.

The sympotic theme continues on the exterior. On one side, youths dance with skyphoi and krotala (castanet-like instruments), and one appears to brandish a slipper. On the other, two more youths cavort and gesture around a woman who reclines on a cushion, playing krotala. She is nude but for the shoes on her feet and the fabric wrap upon her head.

The symposium was a male event, and when women were present, they were there typically to entertain or otherwise attend to the participants. The nudity of the pair on this cup would have been inappropriate for respectable Athenian women, and they represent either enslaved women, hired as prostitutes, or hetaerae, women of independent means who augmented an evening’s drinking with their song, conversation, and sexual allure.

Tondo: ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ ("the boy is beautiful") A: ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ ("the boy is beautiful") B: ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ [ΚΑΛΟΣ] ("the boy [is beautiful]").

Terracotta, attributed to Onesimos, Greek (Attic), ca. 490 BCE.

Getty Villa Museum (82.AE.14)

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