Vase Catalog Number: Toledo 1964.126

Inscriptions:

The inscriptions in the fields above the figures on the interior and exterior of this cup are assemblages of Greek letters, not as actual words, but rather as indications of the slurred sounds and humming of the drunken revelers as they sing and dance to the music.

Collection History:

gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Sources Used:

Moon 1979, no. 101, pp. 178-179.

Other Bibliography:

Riefstahl 1968, 41; J.D. Beazley, in "Un realista greco" Adunanze straordinaire per il conferimento dei premi della Fondazione A. Feltrinelli (Rome 1966) 57-58; Para., 370, no. 12 bis; CVA, USA 17, Toledo 1, p. 35, pls. 55 and 56, p. 35, fig. 10, and p. 36, figs. 11 and 12.

Essay: Moon No. 101

(Kurt T. Luckner)