Terracotta rim fragments of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

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second quarter of the 5th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Below the rim of the larger fragment, a band of up and down dots; head, neck, and part of upper torso of a draped woman, in three-quarter view, wearing a chiton and himation, with a diadem in her hair, playing the aulos; right hand holding an unidentified object; below the rim of the smaller fragment, a band of up and down dots; part of a tendril

Artist

Unknown

Date

second quarter of the 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