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Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

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Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

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Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix (cup)

Terracotta kylix (cup)

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Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Period:: Archaic
Date:: ca. 560 B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Attic
Medium:: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:: H. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm) diameter 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number:: 12.234.2

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Interior, rooster
Exterior, obverse and reverse, male head; at the handles, deer and panthers

While the figural decoration is not comfortably placed, the palmette chain in the handle zone is well adapted to its position on the cup.
Provenance

Said to be from near Naples
See also
What
Clay (23,649)

Vessels (21,921)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,373)

Drinking vessels (6,032)

Cups (3,861)

Kylikes (432)

Siana cups (5)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

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