Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

460–450 BCE
Not on view
Interior, inside the tondo, a youth seen from the back, with his left hand holding a strainer over a table, and his right hand over a pithos; frieze surrounding the tondo, reclining symposiast with his right arm extended, and his left bent arm, resting against two cushions, with his himation draped around his lower body, and a frontal left calf and foot; in the field a situla?; filleted symposiast with his right arm extended, and his left arm bent, with his hand holding a phiale, and his lower body draped with a himation; in the field behind him, a situla; filleted symposiast playing the aulos, with a himation draped around his lower body and legs, resting against two cushions; in the field behind him, a basket; part of the upper torso, bent left arm, and lower body and legs of a symposiast reclining against two cushions; draped legs of a symposiast; Obverse, head, right shoulder and extended arm, and feet of filleted komast to right, with his himation draped around his neck and over his right shoulder; bit of right arm, lower torso, genitals, bent right leg, and bent left leg, with frontal knee and calf, of a capering komast with his himation draped over his left elbow, holding an unidentified object in his left hand; filleted komast to left, holding a kylix in his right hand, and a stick in his left, with his himation draped over his arms and around his lower back; handle palmettes and tendrils; Reverse, legs of komasts

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
  • Period: Classical
  • Date: 460–450 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: 2011.604.1.7987
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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