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Patroclus’s silver mixing-bowl

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Patroclus’s silver mixing-bowl
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Singular provenance-tracked Sidonian vessel used as a race prize.

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The pure-silver six-measure bowl was peerlessly beautiful, Sidonian-made, carried by Phoenicians to Thoas, and given by Euneus to Patroclus as Lycaon’s ransom.

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a mixing-bowl beautifully wrought, of pure silver. It would hold six measures, and far exceeded all others in the whole world for beauty; it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea, who had made a present of it to Thoas. Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroclus in ransom of Priam’s son Lycaon

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a mixing-bowl beautifully wrought, of pure silver
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Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroclus in ransom of Priam’s son Lycaon

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Book 23 · Passage 54

The son of Peleus then offered prizes for speed in running—a mixing-bowl beautifully wrought, of pure silver. It would hold six measures, and far exceeded all others in the whole world for beauty; it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea, who had made a present of it to Thoas. Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroclus in ransom of Priam’s son Lycaon, and Achilles now offered it as a prize in honour of his comrade to him who should be the swiftest runner. For the second prize he offered a large ox, well fattened, while for the last there was to be half a talent of gold. He then rose and said among the Argives, ‘Stand forward, you who will essay this contest.’