Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Obverse, between hunters, lioness felling fallow deer
Reverse, between hunters, lion felling deer
This vase gives noteworthy testimony to the persistence of tradition in Attic vase-painting. Introduced from the Near East and depicted as early as Geometric vases, the motif of a feline felling a bull or deer appears here in mannerly, decorative form. The hunters to either side reflect the predilection for symmetrical compositions with decorative elements, figural or floral, at the handles. The shape of the skyphos readily accommodates the narrative frieze.
Reverse, between hunters, lion felling deer
This vase gives noteworthy testimony to the persistence of tradition in Attic vase-painting. Introduced from the Near East and depicted as early as Geometric vases, the motif of a feline felling a bull or deer appears here in mannerly, decorative form. The hunters to either side reflect the predilection for symmetrical compositions with decorative elements, figural or floral, at the handles. The shape of the skyphos readily accommodates the narrative frieze.
Artwork Details
- Title:Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
- Period:Archaic
- Date:ca. 500 BCE
- Culture:Greek, Attic
- Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions:H. 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
- Classification:Vases
- Credit Line:Purchase, Richard A. Van Every Gift , 1964
- Object Number:64.11.3
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Signed by Hieron as potter
ca. 480 BCE
4th quarter of the 6th century BCE
mid-6th century BCE
4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
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