Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Unknown

late 6th/early 5th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Obverse, goat to right; seated goatherd, wearing a petasos, with his chlamys wrapped around his waist and legs, with his right arm behind him, holding an unidentified object; and his bent left arm in front of him, in between the goat's head and the man's head, four letters of an inscription?; in front of the man's head, three letters of an inscription?; Reverse, draped male to right, with a lyre, facing a goat; below the rim, on both obverse and reverse, dot ivy

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th/early 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