File:Arkesilas Painter - Arkesilas supervising the silphion trade - Paris BnF CabMed 189 - 02.jpg
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English: object type / vase shape: Laconian kylix
- description interior, tondo: king Arkesilas (II.?, reg 560-550 BC of Kyrene) with sceptre, enthroned on stool, wearing pointed hat, supervising the silphion trade: 4 servants weighing silphion (?) on a large scale, 2 servants carrying sacks of silphion watched by a man in mantle, lizzard, cat, birds ...; name inscriptions: [ΣΤ]ΑΘΜΟΣ (scale / balance), ΑΡΚΕΣΙΛΑΣ, ΣΟΦΟΡΤΟΣ, ΙΡΜΟΦΟΡΟΣ, ΟΧΥΔΟ, ΖΛΙΦΟΜΑΧΟΣ, ΦΥΛΑΚΟΣ , ΜΑΕΝ - production place: Laconia - painter / group: Arkesilas Painter - period / date: high archaic, ca. 565-560 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 20 cm - diameter: 29.3 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques (Cabinet des Médailles) 189 - bibliography: Conrad M. Stibbe, Lakonische Vasenmaler des sechsten Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Amsterdam 1972, cat. 194 - https://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/1205?vc=ePkH4LF7w1I94aqfsJQGpkZopb6-HeEUCs0ZZYmQ0gseKADO5C8c - Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes only. If you intend to use the photo for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum. |
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