Terracotta fragments of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Unknown

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

The larger fragment shows, a draped woman to right wearing a sakkos and himation; youth to right, looking over his right shoulder, with his himation draped over his left shoulder, and around his waist, left hand and lower body, with his right arm extended behind him, holding a staff in his right hand; part of a circumscribed palmette with a tendril and a lotus bud; start of the handle root; the second smaller fragment depicts, the head and part of the himation below the neck, of a woman to right, with a sakkos; youth to right, looking over his right shoulder, with a himation draped over his left shoulder and around his elbow and lower body, with his right arm extended behind him and his hand gesturing to the woman, with his left hand holding a staff; part of a circumscribed palmette with a tendril with a lotus bud; start of the handle root

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