Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

490–480 BCE

Not on view

Interior, feet and lower drapery of figure standing on a low podium; on exergue, Anacreontic lyre player with basket hanging from lyre; part of an inscription, [HO] PAIS [KALOS]; Exterior, wreathed youth wearing a himation, holding krotala in both hands, looking over his left shoulder; bearded male with himation, raising a drinking horn in his right hand; bearded man to right, holding a lyre in his left hand and a plektron in his right; lower and drapery of a male to right; wreathed youth holding krotala and sitting on the shoulders of a crouching, wreathed youth, who holds out a drinking cup in his left hand; filleted youth wearing a himation, holding a drinking horn in his right hand; draped youth to right, holding a staff in his right hand and a drinking horn in his left; wreathed youth wearing a himation, playing the aulos; wreathed youth with a himation, and krotala in both hands, looking over his right shoulder; right arm, protruding from himation, with hand holding krotala

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Provenance

Title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Artist: Attributed to the Colmar Painter [Robert Guy]
Period: Late Archaic
Date: 490–480 BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions: 2 1/8 × 14 3/4 × 13 in. (5.4 × 37.5 × 33 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
Object Number: 2011.604.1.6566a, b
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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