Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

Orchard Painter

mid-5th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Tondo, maenad sitting on a rock, holding a thyrsos in her left hand, facing a satyr; figural band around tondo: maenad with sakkos and peplos, holding a thrysos in her right hand and a kantharos in her left; legs and arms of a satyr playing the aulos; lower leg and foot; maenad with peplos, holding a snake in her right hand and kantharos with fillet in her left, satyr with thrysos in left hand facing a maenad holding a torch in her left hand; Obverse, handle palmette, lower legs and body of a draped figure leaning on stick facing the lower legs and body of another draped figure; draped figure with stick facing another; Reverse, handle palmette, feet to right; lower drapery and feet of figure; part of a staff or stick?

Artist

Orchard Painter

Date

mid-5th century BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011