Terracotta kylix: Droop cup (drinking cup)
Attributed to the Group of Rhodes 12264
Exterior, obverse and reverse, Amazonomachy
At the handles, sphinxes
Named after the scholar J.P. Droop who first described the shape, Droop cups were produced between about 540 and 510 B.C. They are characterized by channeling at the top of the stem and, in particular, by the succession of friezes between the main figured zone and the rays at the base of the bowl.
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