Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Restituted
This artwork was restituted in September 2022. It is no longer in the museum’s collection.Interior, man and woman reclining
Exterior, obverse and reverse, men and youths
The integration of mortal and immortal participants in a single scene appears throughout Greek vase-painting. Here, on the exterior, a group of older and younger men is joined by a youth with a cock and a bearded man with a scepter who strongly suggest Ganymede and Zeus. To the right, a boy with a lyre raises his right hand in surprise and flees.
Exterior, obverse and reverse, men and youths
The integration of mortal and immortal participants in a single scene appears throughout Greek vase-painting. Here, on the exterior, a group of older and younger men is joined by a youth with a cock and a bearded man with a scepter who strongly suggest Ganymede and Zeus. To the right, a boy with a lyre raises his right hand in surprise and flees.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
- Artist: Signed by Hieron as potter
- Artist: Attributed to Makron
- Period: Late Archaic
- Date: ca. 490 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: diameter (estimated) 12 15/16in. (32.8cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fried Gift, 1979 (1979.11.8)
Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundtion Inc and Stuart Tray Gifts, 1978 (1978.11.7b, c)
The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1988 (1988.11.4)
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1989 (1989.42)
Gift of Mrs. Frieda Tchacos, in honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1990 (1990.120)
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1994 (1994.172) - Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Hieron
Makron
ca. 490 BCE
Hieron
500–480 BCE
Hieron
Makron
ca. 480 BCE
Hieron
Makron
ca. 480 BCE
Hieron
Makron
ca. 480 BCE
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