Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

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.

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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