Attic Red-Figure Kylix Type B

The cup depicting a musician and hetairai 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: Both sides contain scenes of hetairai at their toilette. Side A depicts a scene of depilation. There are three nude hetairai. On the left, a woman crouches and extends her arm toward the pubic area of the standing woman facing her. To the right another 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 hetairai. 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.