The Odyssey Public domain
Forgotten Island Mug
El arco de Odiseo · Ceramic mug, 325 or 443 ml
Penelope · Charles-François Marchal · ca. 1868 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum record →
26.95 €
VAT included · shipping 4.29 € to
Delivery in 3-4 working days arrives between 8 and 9 October
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It is printed in the European Union, it does not come from outside: it arrives with no customs and no import charges. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.
More designs from Forgotten Island
4 designs for Forgotten Island, on the same mug and at the same price.
Sublimation-printed on Taza de cerámica con interior de color, 325 ml (11 oz) and 443 ml (15 oz).
The garment
- Model
- Taza de cerámica con interior de color
- Composition
- Ceramic, glossy finish
- Capacity
- 325 ml (11 oz) and 443 ml (15 oz)
- Cut
- White outside; the rim, the handle and the inside are coloured
- Printing
- Sublimation, wrap-around print
Data from the Printful spec sheet (Taza de cerámica con interior de color), read on 19 August 2026. The care advice is ours: the manufacturer does not publish the washing label.
Where it comes from: source, motifs and legal status
- Source
- The Odyssey - Homer (8th century BC)
- Motifs
- Odysseus stringing the bow · Penelope and the loom · Telemachus · Circe · Calypso · Polyphemus / the cyclops
- Legal status
- Public domain. The design is ours; the material it starts from belongs to everyone
What this mug is like
Glossy ceramic, white on the outside, with the rim, the handle and the inside in colour. There are two sizes: 325 ml, the classic breakfast mug, and 443 ml, the one for broth or for anyone who does not want to get up for a refill. It is the only object in the catalogue you look at from close up and at leisure: thirty centimetres from your face, every day, while you wait for it to cool.
Read more about this mug
The print is done by sublimation and goes all the way round the piece. The ink goes into the material instead of sitting on top of it, so it has neither the relief nor the edge of a transfer. And because the drawing wraps, there is no good side and empty side: it makes no difference which hand you pick it up with, and no difference how it ends up on the shelf.
It is the cheapest piece in the catalogue and the one that best stands up to daily use, so it is usually the first to come into the house: plenty of people try a design out here before wearing it. About the dishwasher and the microwave we say nothing, and that is not an oversight: the Printful API does not publish that figure in any field of the product, and we are not going to promise on our own account what a piece we do not manufacture can take.
«El arco de Odiseo» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · premium t-shirt, 32.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · women's t-shirt, 33.95 € · sweatshirt, 54.95 € · hoodie, 61.95 €
The drawing on «El arco de Odiseo»
The bow drawn, the arrow already on the string, and below, like a frieze, the twelve axes lined up by the eye the arrow has to pass through in a single shot.
Where this drawing comes from
The twelve axes are not a decorative frieze: the trial is to send the arrow through the eye of all twelve lined up. Take them away and what is left is any old bow.
Here the design finds its format: the twelve axes go all the way round the cylinder and the row has neither beginning nor end, so the trial of book XXI keeps turning without ever being settled. With the bow at the front and the axe heads running across the rest, it is the only piece in the catalogue where the arrow would have somewhere to fly out of and come back into.
«Odyssey», book XXI: the trial of the bow and the twelve axes, which not one of the suitors even manages to string. The shape is that of the composite bow with recurved tips that appears on Minoan seals and on black-figure pottery; the axes are the Cretan double labrys from Knossos.
Sizes: measurements, where each one is made and what it costs
Measurements of the item in centimetres, as published by the factory itself.
| Size | Alto | Diámetro | Made in | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 oz | 11,9 | 8,5 | the EU | 28.95 € |
| 11 oz | 9,6 | 8,3 | Spain | 26.95 € |
The larger formats 15 oz cost more because they cost the printer more: we would rather say so here and stock them than not have them.
«Made in» comes from the warehouse Printful declares for that exact size, not from an estimate of ours.
What you ask us before buying
Why are there twelve axes under the bow?
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Appears in
- — Forgotten Island Film
- — The Odyssey Film