Foot from a Kylix - Fragment
Artist
Pamphaios
(Greek, Attic, late 6th century)
CultureGreek, Attic
Datelate 6th century
Mediumterracotta
Dimensions1 5/8 x 4 5/16 in. (4.2 x 10.9 cm)
Classificationsceramics
Credit LineGift of Professors Sara A. and Henry R. Immerwahr
Object number84.11.1
DescriptionRim of disc foot reserved, on which is written “ΠΑΝΦΑΙΟΣ ΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ.” On the underside of foot, resting surface is reserved, inclined interior walls are black, and a smallportion is reserved. Inscription on the foot translates as Pamphaios made me, attesting
that Pamphaios potted this kylix (or thin-walled drinking cup), which was probably painted by another artist. Pamphaios is associated with the workshop of Nikosthenes. Active from
soon after the mid-sixth century BCE into the early fifth, this workshop produced many shapes—including hydriai, cups, and amphorae—many of which were signed and most of which were exported to Etruria. At least one hundred fifty of these vases designate the potter—more signatures than in any other workshop. The signature of Pamphaios is found on at least fifty-two vases, decorated by a variety of painters. The seventeen black letters of the inscription on the Ackland fragment are evenly spaced and carefully planned, for they fill exactly one half of the base’s circumference. Twenty-one known examples
place the inscription on the reserved edge of the foot, and in only one other besides the Ackland fragment the inscription fills exactly one half of the circumference.
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