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Title:Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to the Tleson Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 550–540 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm.) Diameter 6 in. (15.3 cm.)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:18.74.2
Said to be from Ixia on the island of Rhodes
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Slotty, Friedrich. 1915. Der Gebrauch des Konjunktivs und Optativs in der grechischen Dialekten I Teil: Der Hauptsatz. pp. 20–35, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1919. "Three New Greek Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14(1): pp. 9–10, fig. 2.
Schwyzer, Eduard. 1934. Griechische Grammatik auf der Grundlage von Karl Brugmanns. 1. Bd. Allgemeiner Teil. Lautlehre. Wortbildung. Flexion. p. 804d, München: Beck.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 60, 201, pl. 41g, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America 11. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2. Attic Black-Figured Kylikes. pls. IX, XXXVII, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1956. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. p. 179, no. 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Schulze, Wilhelm. 1967. Quasetiones Epicae. p. 388 n. 3, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Heesen, Pieter. 2011. Athenian little-master cups. no. 392, pp. 202, 205; nn. 37, 276, 344, 1078, 1210, 1221, 1254,, pl. 107e, Amsterdam: Pieter Heesen.
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