Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

Unknown

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

Interior, knobby stick; kantharos with fillets or tassels?; part of a draped figure; a separate fragment shows, on the interior, a round object (fillet?) hanging on the wall; Exterior, one fragment has part of a draped male, wearing a chlamys?; a second fragment depicts the shoulder, elbow, and extended arm of a draped figure, with an eye on the garment; a third fragment shows part of the torso of a draped figure with a bent arm; three rim fragments have parts of circumscribed palmettes; another fragment depicts eight fronds of a palmette; one fragment has the handle root and part of a circumscribed palmette; one fragment has a bit of a circumscribed palmette and tendril; there is a fragment with the left half of a handle with part of the handle patch; there is a fragment with the right half of the handle and a bit of the handle patch is the right half of the handle with a bit of the handle patch

Artist

Unknown

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