Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Unknown Artist
second quarter of the 5th century BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
Accession Number
2011.604.1.3053
Art Historical Context
This terracotta fragment from a kylix, a shallow drinking cup popular in ancient Greek symposia,ails from Attic Greece in the second quarter of the 5 century BCE—the heart of the Classical period.ed during Athens' Golden Age under Pericles, when the city flourished as a cultural powerhouse, such vases were everyday luxuries used in social gatherings for wine-drinking rituals that fostered philosophy, poetry, and male bonding. Attic potters were masters of terracotta, firing clay at high temperatures for durability and then decorating it with intricate black- or red-figure techniques that brou...