Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)
Attributed to the Group of Vatican G.57
Between eyes, seated Dionysos
At handle, satyrs
The kyathos had a brief life span, limited to the last decades of the sixth century B.C., and almost every example is decorated in black-figure. The shape originated in Etruria. Attic kyathoi seem to have been made for export, with the workshop of Nikosthenes as a major supplier.
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