Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

ca. 510 BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

Interior, seated youth holding fruit (quinces?)
Exterior, obverse, flute girl peering into amphora (jar)
Reverse, flute girl holding cup of special shape

The decoration of vases used in symposia (drinking party) draws liberally on the erotic aspects of these events. The flute girl on the obverse investigates a pointed amphora; her flute case dangles rather provocatively from one leg. Her counterpart on the other side raises a particularly unusual type of kylix.

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Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist: Attributed to the Palmette Eye-cups
Period: Archaic
Date: ca. 510 BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions: H. with handles 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm)
H. of bowl 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm)
diameter of bowl 13 1/8 in. (33.4 cm)
diameter of foot 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956
Object Number: 56.171.61
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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