Detail of a Kylix Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; red-figure

Culture: Greek, Attic

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 460 B.C.

Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter

Dimensions: H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); diameter 14 7/16 in. (36.7 cm); width with handles 18 1/16 in. (45.8 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941

Accession Number: 41.162.9

Description:
Interior, hunter attacking boar
Exterior, obverse and reverse, athletes

The workshop of the Penthesilea Painter was the most active purveyor of cups during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C. The tondo here illustrates the artist's facility with his medium. A rocky setting is implied by the curvilinear forms at the sides, the boar's hide is indicated by a few strokes of dilute glaze, and the hunter wields his machaira (knife) in the post of the Tyrant-slayers.

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