Object Image

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Unknown Artist

Interior, satyr standing on the mouth of a column krater, bent forward with his head between his legs, in his right hand, part of a rope? fastened to a vase that he is pulling out of the krater?; on the left, a pointed amphora, bearing the inscription, KALO; in the field, part of an inscription, HO PAIS K[AL]O[S]

Credit: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011

500-480 B.C.
Terracotta; red-figure
2011.604.1.6248
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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