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Terracotta kylix: Komast cup (drinking cup)

Obverse and reverse, komasts (revelers)

The black-figure technique was introduced into Athens from Corinth at the end of the seventh century B.C. During the early sixth century, Attic cup painters favored Corinthian motifs, like these dancing revelers. Indeed, the Komast cup is the earliest canonical type of Attic black-figure kylix.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1922

Ca. 580–570 B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure
9.5 x 9.5cm
22.139.22
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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