Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

Unknown

540–520 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, gorgoneion; Obverse, parts of two eyes, in between the eyes, a helmeted warrior to left, wearing a corselet, chitoniskos, and greaves, with his right arm bent, and his upper torso in three-quarter view; draped male to left wearing a chiton and himation; buttocks and legs of a warrior to right, wearing a chitoniskos and greaves; below each handle, vines with bunches of grapes; Reverse, part of an eye with a black and red oculus; around the stem, a band of rays, alternating with black and reserve; above, eight black glazed lines, in two groups of four; at the juncture of the bowl and the stem, a ring; the top of the foot is glazed and concave; the outer edge of the foot is reserved and concave; the resting surface has three black glazed lines; the inside of the stem is black glazed

Artist

Unknown

Date

540–520 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