Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette. Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right. Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right. (b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette. Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right. Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right. (b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
