Vase Catalog Number: Toledo 1963.28

Inscriptions:

In the field behind the centaur is the inscription: hO PAIS KALOS, translated as "the boy is beautiful".

Collection History: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.

Condition:

Details missing from decoration include: in the tondo, most of the stone held by the centaur, part of his tail and his front legs at their juncture with the chest; on Side B, an area extending from the rim above the right eye across the eyebrow to the innermost black band of the iris, and a few chips along a curved break extending from the rim across the left eye and through the figure of the crouching trainer.

Date Description:

Few anatomical markings in the red figures and the use of incision for details difficult to reserve place this vase in the early period of red figure.

Sources Used: Moon 1979, no. 58, p. 100-101

Other Bibliography: Touchefeu-Meynier 1963, no. 14; "Note From Paris: Drawing in Greek Art," Apollo 78 (July 1963) 59, no. 4 (incorrectly given to the Bowdoin Painter); Münzen, 65-66, no. 124; O. Wittmann, "Treasures at Toledo, Ohio," Apollo 81 (Jan. 1965) 29; E. Vermeule, "Myths, Shapes and Colours," Apollo 86 (Dec. 1967) 425-427, figs. 10-12; F. Weissengruber, "Zur Wertung des römischen Klassizismus." AntK 10 (1967) 48, pl. 14, 1; R. M. Reifstahl, "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum News 11 (1968) 39; K. Schauenburg, "Herakles bei Pholos zu zwei frührotfigurigen Schalen," AthMitt 86 (1971) 43, n. 7; CVA, USA 17, Toledo 1, pp. 30-31, pls. 47 and 49, 1, fig. 9; B. Cohen 1978, 482 (no. B112) and 483-484.

Essay: Moon No. 58

(Kurt T. Luckner, Beth Cohen)