Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Interior, figure mounted on horse wearing Eastern dress holding bow, Amazon?; part of an inscription, LO; EP?; Exterior, head and extended arms of wreathed youth wrapped around the torso of a woman wearing a sakkos; handle patch, start of handle roots, below, palmette and tendril; helmeted Athena on a chariot holding a spear in her right hand and mounting chariot; extended arm and foot of draped figure; horses; a second fragment depicts the buttock and leg of figure to left; flute case; frontal woman with left arm extended, and raised, left leg held by wreathed, ithyphallic youth to left; stool with a bundle of drapery; woman with sakkos, seen from the back, with raised right leg and youth to left, grasping her wreath; a third fragment depicts a woman wearing a sakkos with her arms extended in front of her and part of the arms of a second figure (male?) to left
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: 520–510 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.1.5931a–c
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Greek
3rd or 4th century BCE (?)
Attributed to Elbows Out
ca. 550–525 BCE
ca. 7th century BCE
On loan to The Met
Attributed to the Triptolemos Painter
ca. 490–470 BCE
Greek or Italic
4th–1st century BCE
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