Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium
The exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) appear formal indeed.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
- Artist: Signed by Hieron as potter
- Artist: Attributed to Makron
- Period: Classical
- Date: ca. 480 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: H. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)
diameter 13 1/16 in. (33.2 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.246
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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