Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Youth to right, with a red fillet tied around his head, with his himation draped over his left shoulder, with a staff held between his right shoulder and upper left arm; his right arm is bent, and his hand is holding the end of the red fillet, holding a lyre in his right hand; part of an inscription; to the left of the youth's head, …EL oe EG…; to the right of the lyre, LEON?; EOS
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: 500–480 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: 2011.604.2.2333
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Signed by Hieron as potter
ca. 480 BCE
4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
mid-4th century BCE
Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
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