Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)
Obverse, rooster
Reverse, grazing deer
Reverse, grazing deer
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)
- Artist: Attributed to the Tleson Painter
- Artist: Signed by Tleson as potter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: height as restored: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
Other: 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm)
Other (width with handles): 11 13/16in. (30cm)
Diam. of foot: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927
- Object Number: 27.122.30
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Tleson Painter
Tleson
ca. 550–540 BCE
Tleson Painter
ca. 550–540 BCE
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Makron
ca. 480 BCE
Greek, South Italian, Campanian
4th century BCE
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late 10th–early 9th century BCE
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