The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

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Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Period:: Archaic
Date:: ca. 500 B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Attic
Medium:: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:: H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); diameter 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); width with handles 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1941
Accession Number:: 41.162.125

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Guinea fowl

Birds appear with some frequency on vases at the end of the sixth century B.C. Roosters, geese, herons, and guinea fowl belonged to Athenian households.
See also
What
Clay (23,658)

Vessels (21,925)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,374)

Drinking vessels (6,032)

Skyphoi (142)
Where
Europe (150,115)

Greece (6,289)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,206)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,330)
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Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.