Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)
Oversized, elaborately decorated wine cups of this type are popular products of bucchero workshops at Vulci. Some are too large and heavy, especially when filled, to have been used by living banqueters. They may have been made expressly for the dead.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 575–550 BCE
- Culture: Etruscan
- Medium: Terracotta; bucchero pesante
- Dimensions: H. 9 in. (22.9 cm); H. with handle 16 1/8 in. (41 cm); diameter of mouth 10 in. (25.4 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1916
- Object Number: 16.174.11
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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