Interior, youth before unexplained structure Exterior, obverse and reverse, colonnade with flute player flanked by youths
The structure in the tondo is clearly of wood, but its function remains unknown. The scenes on the exterior have been interpreted as a chorus of young men training for a public performance.
Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
Open Access
As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.
API
Public domain data for this object can also be accessed using the Met's Open Access API.
This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Scroll left to view more.
View 1
View 2
View 3
Artwork Details
Use your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item
Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to the Briseis Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 480–470 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); diameter 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Funds from various donors, 1927
Accession Number:27.74
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1928. "Recent Accessions of Athenian Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23(4): pp. 108, 110, figs. 1, 8.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 25, fig. 156, New York: Plantin Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 51, pp. 71–72, pls. 47, 48, 180, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 87, fig. 62, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 73, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 87, fig. 62, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 407, no. 18, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1966. The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. p. 79, fig. 413, London: Phaidon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 371, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beck, Frederick A. G. 1975. Album of Greek Education: The Greeks at School and at Play. p. 26, figs. 115–16, Sydney: Cheiron Press.
Meyer, Elizabeth A. 2016. "Posts, Kurbeis, Metopes: the Origins of the Athenian "Documentary" Stele." Hesperia, 85(2): p. 342, fig. 7.
Brøns, Cecilie. 2017. Gods and Garments : Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries B.C.. pp. 125–26, fig. 24, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Williams, Dyfri, Kenneth Lapatin, Nicholaus Dietrich, Judith M. Barringer, Francois Lissarrague, and Edinburgh University Press. 2022. Images at the Crossroads : Media and Meaning in Greek Art, Judith M. Barringer and Francois Lissarrague, eds. pp. 162–64, figs. 7.18, 7.19, Edinburgh.
Chamay, Jacques. 2023.
Linos ou l'éducation scolaire à Athènes: Première moitié du Ve siècle av. J.-C.. no. 53, pp. 38, 168–69, Genève: Éditions Slatkine.
The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars.
The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can connect to the most up-to-date data and public domain images for The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.
The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 30,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312.
