"Skyphos" with Dancer and "Komast"

Description This "skyphos," a large drinking cup, depicts a dancer and a "komast," a drunken reveler. The dancer lunges to the right with extended arms, while the "komast" stands in profile holding a "skyphos." These scenes of festivity are fitting for this vessel, which was associated with the "symposium" (men's drinking party). This particular piece bears evidence of ancient repairs: several copper-alloy clamps-some now broken-were used to join the pieces of the damaged vessel, indicating the value of the "skyphos" to the owner even after it had lost its function of holding liquid.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/05/1959	Treatment	cleaned
6/10/1987	Treatment	other; coated; stabilized; cleaned; reconstructed; repaired
4/15/2011	Treatment	cleaned; other

Provenance Sale XVI, Basel, June 30, 1956, no. 132; Paul I. Ilton [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; The Paul I. Ilton Collection Sale, Hans M. F. Schulman, New York, November 21, 1959, no. 637; Walters Art Msueum, 1959, by purchase.

Inscriptions [Transcription, Greek] KAΛOΣ

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1959