Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Period: Classical

Date: 450–440 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

Accession Number: 2011.604.2.1339

Inscription: Above the head of the draped male to right, part of an inscription, KALO; in between the two youths, S; above the head of the youth to left, three letters of an inscription

Dietrich von Bothmer, head of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1959 through 1990, began to assemble a personal study collection of Greek vase fragments around the time that he began to teach in the late 1960s. Upon his death in 2009, he bequeathed the fragments to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which accepted them with the approval of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Property and Activity.

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