King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.

Date:: 1937

Reference:: 16300i

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King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced June 2023 : King Arcesilas of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.

Description

For silphium see further: Colin Dence, The herbal review, 1980 vol. 5 no. 2, pp. 10-11

Publication/Creation

1937

Physical description

1 painting : gouache with watercolour

Contributors

Kelly, Sheelagh Winifred, 1914-

Lettering

The export of the medicinal plant, silphium, from Cyrenaica in the sixth century B.C. ... Lettering continues: "The silphium trade was the chief source of revenue to the city of Cyrene for several centuries. Bales of silphium are shown being weighed and packed in the hold of a ship in the presence of King Arcesilas. (Circa 580-550 B.C.)

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Wellcome Collection 16300i

Reproduction note

After: "interior of a Spartan kylix, early VI century B.C." , held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, as reproduced in Adolf Furtwängler and Karl W. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, Munich 1932

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