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Kylix with Youth Riding a Hippalektryon

Artist attributed to the Ready Painter (Attic, active ca. 525-515 BCE)
Date560-550 BCE
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/4 x 9 13/16 in. (12.1 x 25 cm)
rim: 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)
Classification(s)
  • ANCIENT
Credit LineGift of the son and daughters of Charles Bolles Bolles-Rogers, Class of 1907: Frederick Van D. Rogers, Mary Rogers Savage, and Nancy Rogers Pierson
Terms
  • hippalektryon
  • horse
  • bird
  • male figure
Object number77.63.29
DescriptionA hippalektryon is a mythical animal half horse, half fowl
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