#kylix

Medium: Terracotta, red-figure with added red

This little Hestia themed kylix was a delight to work on! It was an excellent exercise in seeing how fine I can get a line :)

On the tondo is represented ‘dread-yelping’ Scylla, the Homeric sea monster who lived in a cave on a cliff along the Sicilian coast off the Straits of Messina. She is depicted in the characteristic way, with the upper body of a beautiful woman and three fierce dogs springing from her hips amidst her scaly extremities, one of which terminates in a ketos or sea dragon. Her dog’s heads snap at fish jumping around her and she brandishes the broken rudder of ship, which she has sent to the deep. Scylla is framed by a wave pattern and encircling the interior of the rim is a gilt laurel wreath.

Fabrizio Garrisi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Anonymous Codrus Painter Attic Kylix, ca. 440–430 BC Berlin State Museums

Amphitrite and Theseus. Attic red figure kylix, c. 500-450 BCE. Attributed to the Briseis Painter.