Bryn Mawr Painter Greek (active ca. 500 BCE - ca. 480 BCE)
Attic Red-Figure Plate
Red-figured plate; bearded symposiast playing kottabos (reclining with pillow at his back, holding up kylix and wreath, skin on wall); black paint on back; one wide and one narrow band; style of Duris. This type of object is sometimes referred to as a pinax (pl. pinakes). "Note that the Bryn Mawr Painter did not initially intend to decorate this plate with a kottabos player, since he originally sketched the komast's right forearm more horizontally." The inscription on the plate "HO PAIS KALOS" reads "the boy is beautiful," a common phrase on late archaec/early classical sympotic pottery, sometimes naming individuals.
circa 500BCE - ca. 475 BCE
Medium clay
5 7/8 in. (diameter) x 7/16 in. (thickness) (15 cm x 1.1 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession number P.95
Credit line Gift of Joseph Clark Hoppin, Professor of Archaeology
Inscriptions "HO PAIS KALOS"
Source/Photographer Bryn Mawr College
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