Wine Cup Fragment with a Warrior Painted by Onesimos and Potted by Euphronios in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment

Artists/Makers: Attributed to Onesimos (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 B.C.) and Signed by Euphronios (Greek (Attic), active 520 - 480 B.C.)

Culture: Greek (Attic)

Place: Athens, Greece (Place Created)

Date: about 490 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

Object Number: 86.AE.311

Dimensions: 10 × 11.2 × 2 cm (3 15/16 × 4 7/16 × 13/16 in.)

Inscription(s): [ΕΥΦΡΟΝ]ΙΟΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣEN ("[Euphroni]os made [it]").

Alternate Title: Fragment of a Wine Cup with a Warrior (Display Title)

Previous Attribution: Painter: Onesimos (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 B.C..

Department: Antiquities

Classification: Vessels

Object Type: Cup

The interior preserves the head and shoulders of a bearded warrior, moving to the right. With his shield on his left shoulder, he wears a cuirass decorated with a palmette and drapery over his right shoulder. His Corinthian helmet is worn off the face, and a wreathed scalp lies on top of it. Gloria Ferrari ( "Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases," Classical Antiquity 22.1 (April 2003), suggests the figure may be Achilles wearing the scalp of the Trojan prince, Troilos. To the left of the warrior’s head is an inscription, ‘[Euphroni]os made [it]’. Around the tondo, meander pattern with chequer squares. The exterior preserves a Centauromachy. From left: foot of a fallen Lapith, hind leg of a Centaur, and a greaved leg of a Lapith who thrusts his spear into the flank of a fallen Centaur (seen in rear view). Blood spurts from the wound.

Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12109/attributed-to-onesimos-and-signed-by-euphronios-attic-red-figure-cup-fragment-greek-attic-about-490-bc