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Terracotta fragments of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

Interior, the largest fragment has a bit of the hair from a gorgoneion?; Exterior, the largest fragment depicts horses to right; behind the horses; lower drapery and feet of a figure to left; lower left corner of an eye, with the tear duct, and part of the black and white oculus; below the eye, a vine branch with a bunch of grapes; below, a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; the second fragment has the lower drapery and feet of a woman to right; below, a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; a third fragment shows horse hooves to right and the foot of a male to left; below, top of a circumscribed palmette; a fourth fragment has a horse hoof and part of an the outer edge of an eye with a black and white oculus; a fifth fragment depicts feet of a male to left; below, the top of a frieze of circumscribed palmettes; a sixth fragment shows part of the frieze of circumscribed palmettes

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

520-510 B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure
2011.604.3.2464a-f
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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