Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Telephos Painter
480–470 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Early 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
2011.604.1.5308
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Telephos Painter
**The Telephos Painter** was an anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter active circa 470–460 BCE. His conventional name, assigned by the scholar J.D. Beazley, derives from a distinctive cup now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (98.931), that depicts the mythological hero Telephos at the palace of Agamemnon. Like most Attic vase-painters of the Classical period, his personal identity remains u...