Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"Melosa’s Prize Revisited: Weaving the Story of a Greek Eye Cup"

Bundrick, Sheramy D.
2025
17 pages
11 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup), Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Greek, Attic
ca. 540–530 BCE
Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid, Painter of Philadelphia 2449, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Painter of Philadelphia 2449
ca. 460 BCE
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), Amasis Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Amasis Painter
ca. 550–530 BCE

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Bundrick, Sheramy D. “Melosa’s Prize Revisited: Weaving the Story of a Greek Eye Cup.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 8–24. https://doi.org/10.1086/739631.