Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Akestorides Painter
ca. 460 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Interior, youth playing lyre The youth is sitting beside an altar, and his hair is bound in a fillet (band). Above the altar hangs a type of bag that is often shown holding marbles. The representation is memorable for its simplicity and for the sympathetic rendering of a schoolboy happily absorbed in his music.
- Artist
- Akestorides Painter
- Date
- ca. 460 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1922
