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Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Briseis Painter
Period:
Classical
Date:
ca. 480–470 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:
H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); diameter 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Funds from various donors, 1927
Accession Number:
27.74
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157
Interior, youth before unexplained structure
Exterior, obverse and reverse, colonnade with flute player flanked by youths

The structure in the tondo is clearly of wood, but its function remains unknown. The scenes on the exterior have been interpreted as a chorus of young men training for a public performance.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1928. "Recent Accessions of Athenian Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23(4): pp. 108, 110, figs. 1, 8.

Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 25, fig. 156, New York: Plantin Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 87, fig. 62, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 73, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 87, fig. 62, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 407, no. 18, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1966. The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. p. 79, fig. 413, London: Phaidon Press.

Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 371, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Meyer, Elizabeth A. 2016. "Posts, Kurbeis, Metopes: the Origins of the Athenian "Documentary" Stele." Hesperia, 85(2): p. 342, fig. 7.

Essays
Theseus, Hero of Athens

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1 and 2

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