Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

Unknown

520–510 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, figure mounted on horse wearing Eastern dress holding bow, Amazon?; part of an inscription, LO; EP?; Exterior, head and extended arms of wreathed youth wrapped around the torso of a woman wearing a sakkos; handle patch, start of handle roots, below, palmette and tendril; helmeted Athena on a chariot holding a spear in her right hand and mounting chariot; extended arm and foot of draped figure; horses; a second fragment depicts the buttock and leg of figure to left; flute case; frontal woman with left arm extended, and raised, left leg held by wreathed, ithyphallic youth to left; stool with a bundle of drapery; woman with sakkos, seen from the back, with raised right leg and youth to left, grasping her wreath; a third fragment depicts a woman wearing a sakkos with her arms extended in front of her and part of the arms of a second figure (male?) to left

Artist

Unknown

Date

520–510 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