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Attic Red-Figure Stemless Kylix

Date

about 380 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

The vessel is reconstructed from fragments. The recurved handles are reserved on the inside. The interior is decorated with an impressed, encircled palmette surrounded by six more impressed palmettes and an outer impressed ring of horseshoes. The inside of the rim is decorated with an ivy vine and berries in added white with reserved leaves. Each side of the exterior has three figures: a central, seated female, looking over her shoulder to the left with her left hand raised as if holding a staff. She is flanked by two nude male figures. The right figure on both sides feces left with his left arm wrapped in drapery and the right extended at waist level. The left figure faces right with the right arm raised as if holding a staff. On one side this figure also leans with his left arm as if leaning on the shoulder of the seated woman. There are three palmettes in the handle zones: one under the handle and two flanking. The underside is decorated with black glaze rings.

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