Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)
Interior, Pegasos, the mythological winged horse
Exterior, obverse and reverse, Tleson, son of Nearchos, made [me]
Exterior, obverse and reverse, Tleson, son of Nearchos, made [me]
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)
- Artist: Signed by Tleson as potter
- Artist: Attributed to the Tleson Painter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 540 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (14.9 × 29.2 cm)
Other: 8 9/16in. (21.7cm)
Other (width with handles): 11 3/8in. (28.9cm)
Diam. of foot: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Purchase, Christos G. Bastis Gift, 1955
- Object Number: 55.11.13
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Signed by Tleson as potter
ca. 540 BCE
Signed by Hieron as potter
ca. 480 BCE
4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
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