Terracotta Tumbler in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

Terracotta tumbler

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 525–510 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm) diameter 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.171.37

Description:

Eight dancing youths

These youths are descendents of the komasts, the padded dancers that originally entered Athenian iconography from Corinth. We can interpret the figures here as young men in good spirits after a symposium (drinking party).


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