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Unknown Maker, Greek

Drinking Cup (Kylix)

Maker

Culture

Greek

Title

Drinking Cup (Kylix)

Year

525-500 BCE

Medium

Black-figure terra cotta

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Black-figure terra cotta

Materials

clay

Geography

Place Made: Attica

Dimensions

Height: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Susan Martin Allien

Object Number

35.709

Type

Ceramics

Exhibition History

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

Apr 09, 2022 – Aug 03, 2025

Label copy

Two handles on a vessel can help the drinker steady the contents during use or more easily hand it off to a fellow imbiber. Caudle was a warm beverage of wine or ale, eggs, bread, milk, and spices that was popular in the 1600s and 1700s in England and its colonies. Flanking depictions of followers of the wine god Dionysus, the large painted eyes on the ancient Greek kylix turn the cup into a mask when brought to the drinker’s mouth.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Greek

Drinking Cup (Kylix), 525-500 BCE

Black-figure terra cotta

Height: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 inches)

Bequest of Susan Martin Allien 35.709

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