Terracotta fragments of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

Unknown

530–510 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Exterior, the rim fragment has part of an eyebrow and eye, with a black and white oculus; head, neck, and torso of a bearded satyr, looking up, with his arms around a draped maenad, whose right arm is wrapped around the satyr's neck, and rests below his right shoulder; above the satyr's head, a vine with a bunch of grapes; the smaller fragment has part of the outer black glazed edge of an eye and part of a vine with a bunch of grapes; part of the calf of a male?

Artist

Unknown

Date

530–510 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