Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Interior, hunter attacking boar
Exterior, obverse and reverse, athletes
The workshop of the Penthesilea Painter was the most active purveyor of cups during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C. The tondo here illustrates the artist's facility with his medium. A rocky setting is implied by the curvilinear forms at the sides, the boar's hide is indicated by a few strokes of dilute glaze, and the hunter wields his machaira (knife) in the post of the Tyrant-slayers.
Exterior, obverse and reverse, athletes
The workshop of the Penthesilea Painter was the most active purveyor of cups during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C. The tondo here illustrates the artist's facility with his medium. A rocky setting is implied by the curvilinear forms at the sides, the boar's hide is indicated by a few strokes of dilute glaze, and the hunter wields his machaira (knife) in the post of the Tyrant-slayers.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
- Artist: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter
- Period: Classical
- Date: ca. 460 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); diameter 14 7/16 in. (36.7 cm); width with handles 18 1/16 in. (45.8 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941
- Object Number: 41.162.9
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Penthesilea Painter
ca. 470 BCE
Penthesilea Painter
ca. 470 BCE
Penthesilea Painter
ca. 470 BCE
On loan to The Met
Penthesilea Painter
5th century BCE
Penthesilea Painter
ca. 460 BCE
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