Detail of a Kylix by Douris with a Woman Washing her Hands in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Drinking cup (kylix)
Greek, Early Classical Period, about 470 B.C.
Douris

Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: Height: 75 cm (29 1/2 in.) Diameter: 21.5 cm (8 7/16 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Classification: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 131.

Accession Number: 97.369

Interior: a woman in a dress (chiton), cloak (himation) and hair cloth (sakkos) washing her hands in a flat basin. In field, the end of a couch, vessel on floor, and goatskin hanging in background.

Inscribed, "The girl is pretty" (HE PAIS KALE)

Exterior undecorated.

Condition: Repaired with slight restorations.

Inscription: "The girl is pretty" (HE PAIS KALE)

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/drinking-cup-kylix-153683