Fragment of a terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)
Hischylos Painter
ca. 520 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
Overall: 3 5/8 x 2 1/8in. (9.2 x 5.4cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Archaic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.139.81
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Male Nudes
About the Artist
Hischylos Painter
**The Hischylos Painter** was an anonymous Athenian vase-painter active in the late Archaic period, roughly 525–500 BCE. He is conventionally named after the potter Hischylos, who signed numerous cups with the verb *epoiesen* (“made it”), several of which the painter decorated. Working exclusively in the red-figure technique on terracotta kylikes (drinking cups), he specialized in eye-cups and bil...