Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape
Unknown Artist
late 5th century/early 4th 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
2011.604.2.2394
Art Historical Context
This terracotta fragment, hailing from late 5th-century or early 4th-century BCEic Greece, offers a tantalizing glimpse into the Classical period's masterful pottery tradition. Produced in Athens during a golden age of cultural and artistic innovation—amid the Peloponnesian War's aftermath and the rise of philosophy and drama—these vases were everyday marvels, often adorned with vivid scenes from mythology, daily life, or. Though its exact shape remains undetermined, it belongs to the vast corpus of Attic vases classified at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcasing the precision of Greek whe...