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Eight dancing youths
These youths are descendents of the komasts, the padded dancers that originally entered Athenian iconography from Corinth. We can interpret the figures here as young men in good spirits after a symposium (drinking party).
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Title: Terracotta tumbler
Period: Archaic
Date: ca. 525–510 BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:
H. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
diameter 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956
Object Number: 56.171.37
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