Terracotta fragments of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)
Interior, the largest fragment has a bit of the hair from a gorgoneion?; Exterior, the largest fragment depicts horses to right; behind the horses; lower drapery and feet of a figure to left; lower left corner of an eye, with the tear duct, and part of the black and white oculus; below the eye, a vine branch with a bunch of grapes; below, a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; the second fragment has the lower drapery and feet of a woman to right; below, a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; a third fragment shows horse hooves to right and the foot of a male to left; below, top of a circumscribed palmette; a fourth fragment has a horse hoof and part of an the outer edge of an eye with a black and white oculus; a fifth fragment depicts feet of a male to left; below, the top of a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; a sixth fragment shows part of the frieze of circumscribed palmettes
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: 520–510 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.2464a–f
- 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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