Terracotta cup with appliqués

Unknown

ca. 150–100 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Applied decoration: head of a maenad between Erotes playing Drinking cups comprise the most important class of Pergamene relief ware. The genre may have been developed for libations and feasts celebrated in the context of the ruler cult of the Attalids, the royal dynasty that ruled Pergamon in the third and second centuries B.C.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 150–100 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Pergamene

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1906