Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)
Not on view
Interior, gorgoneion; Obverse, parts of two eyes, in between the eyes, a helmeted warrior to left, wearing a corselet, chitoniskos, and greaves, with his right arm bent, and his upper torso in three-quarter view; draped male to left wearing a chiton and himation; buttocks and legs of a warrior to right, wearing a chitoniskos and greaves; below each handle, vines with bunches of grapes; Reverse, part of an eye with a black and red oculus; around the stem, a band of rays, alternating with black and reserve; above, eight black glazed lines, in two groups of four; at the juncture of the bowl and the stem, a ring; the top of the foot is glazed and concave; the outer edge of the foot is reserved and concave; the resting surface has three black glazed lines; the inside of the stem is black glazed
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