Object photograph·Csn0170·1927–1931
Pottery Red Figured Ware, detail from a Greek drinking cup
Description
A photograph of a painted scene inside a light circular band shows a rider in a wide-brimmed hat and short garment holding a long pole. He sits on a horse with its head turned to the right and its legs extended, drawn in pale lines against a dark ground. A printed caption card with a quotation sits in the lower right, and a handwritten number appears below the mount.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A horse is shown in profile facing right, with a rider in a wide-brimmed hat holding a long spear, inside a light circular band on a dark ground. A second figure stands at the right, partly behind the horse's head. A printed caption block sits along the lower right edge.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Pottery Red Figured Ware. DETAIL FROM A GREEK DRINKING CUP. Cyprus Museum. "All about these tombs were set funeral lamps, vessels large and small, which the ancients, according to their superstitious practice, filles on certain fixed days of the year with oil and wine, offering libations and sacrifices to the gods of the lower world on behalf of their dead." Constantius, Archbishop of Sinai 1766 (A pleasant and brief Cypriad)
Swedish, as on the record
Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Red Figured Ware. DETAIL FROM A GREEK DRINKING CUP Cyprus Museum "All about these tombs were set funeral lamps, vessels large and small, which the ancients, according to their superstitious practice, filles on certain fixed days of the year with oil and wine, offering libations and sacrifices to the gods of the lower world on behalf of their dead." Constantius, Archbishop of Sinai 1766 (A pleasant and brief Cypriad)