Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Unknown

460–450 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, inside the tondo, a youth seen from the back, with his left hand holding a strainer over a table, and his right hand over a pithos; frieze surrounding the tondo, reclining symposiast with his right arm extended, and his left bent arm, resting against two cushions, with his himation draped around his lower body, and a frontal left calf and foot; in the field a situla?; filleted symposiast with his right arm extended, and his left arm bent, with his hand holding a phiale, and his lower body draped with a himation; in the field behind him, a situla; filleted symposiast playing the aulos, with a himation draped around his lower body and legs, resting against two cushions; in the field behind him, a basket; part of the upper torso, bent left arm, and lower body and legs of a symposiast reclining against two cushions; draped legs of a symposiast; Obverse, head, right shoulder and extended arm, and feet of filleted komast to right, with his himation draped around his neck and over his right shoulder; bit of right arm, lower torso, genitals, bent right leg, and bent left leg, with frontal knee and calf, of a capering komast with his himation draped over his left elbow, holding an unidentified object in his left hand; filleted komast to left, holding a kylix in his right hand, and a stick in his left, with his himation draped over his arms and around his lower back; handle palmettes and tendrils; Reverse, legs of komasts

Artist

Unknown

Date

460–450 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