Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Antiphon Painter

ca. 490 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, youth wearing phorbeia (lip band) and holding double flute (aulos); inscribed the boy is fair Exterior, youths The scenes here depict young Athenian men engaged in pursuits characteristic of their age and status. Music was an integral part of education, with the flute and the lyre as the primary instruments. The youth on the interior must just have stopped playing because he still wears the phorbeia. His companions on the outside converse and occupy themselves with a hare.

Artist

Antiphon Painter

Date

ca. 490 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase, 1896