page_title: Kalos inscription
hierarchical_section_title: Kalos inscription
caption_attribution_description: English: So-called “Memnon pieta”: Eos lifting up the body of her son Memnon. Kalos inscription. Interior from an Attic red-figure cup, ca. 490–480 BC. From Capua, Italy. Français&#160;: Éos soulevant le corps de son fils Memnon. Inscription kalos. Intérieur d'une coupe attique à figures rouges, vers 490-480 av. J.-C. Provenance&#160;: Capoue.
context_page_description: A kalos inscription is a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, mainly during the Classical period from 550 to 450 BC. The word kalos means "beautiful", and in the inscriptions it had an erotic connotation.
context_section_description: A kalos inscription (καλός) is a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, mainly during the Classical period from 550 to 450 BC. The word kalos (καλός) means "beautiful", and in the inscriptions it had an erotic connotation.
caption: The so-called "Memnon pietà", with the goddess Eos holding the body of Memnon: among the inscriptions[1] is the phrase Hermogenes kalos (Attic red-figure cup, ca. 490–480 BC, from Capua; at the Louvre)
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