Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)
c. 460–450 BC
Nausicaa Painter
Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BC)
Greek and Roman Art
Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros), c. 460–450 BC. Attributed to Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BC). Ceramic; overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frances W. Ingalls 1992.369 Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king. An inscription identifies this woman as Aglauros, an Athenian princess.
- Maker/Artist
- Nausicaa Painter
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- ceramic
- Medium
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscription
- Departments
- Greek and Roman Art
- Accession Number
- 1992.369
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances W. Ingalls
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 102B Greek
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