Terracotta fragments of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
a: the rim fragment has a right hand holding a bag, and a lotus bud and tendril from the handle ornament; near the break, above the right arm, one letter of an inscription, L?; b: tendrils from the handle ornament; lower part of a draped male to left, with a staff; in between the tendril and staff, an unidentified object
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
- Period: Classical
- Date: mid-5th century 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: 2011.604.4.16a, b
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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mid 5th century BCE
Signed by Hieron as potter
ca. 480 BCE
4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
mid-4th century BCE
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