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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.
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Title: Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)
Period: Archaic
Date: ca. 560 BCE
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
Object Number: 12.234.2
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