Terracotta stemmed calyx
This useful shape was popular from the last quarter of the sixth century B.C. into the third quarter of the fifth. It may have contained foods such as nuts, olives, and other small fruits.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta stemmed calyx
- Period: Late Archaic
- Date: early 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-glaze
- Dimensions: H. 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941
- Object Number: 41.162.246
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
4th quarter of the 6th century BCE
mid-6th century BCE
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