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Attic Red-Figure Cup Type B

Date

about 490 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

The cup is mended from several fragments. The tondo on the interior is framed by a band of meander pattern. Within, a youth (wreathed, himation over shoulder, slippers) stoops to hold the head of his elder (wreathed and wearing a fillet, otherwise nude) who is vomiting. A staff lies to the left, and there is a partially preserved potter's inscription in added red. A: Komos. A youth (himation over his shoulders, staff in the background) walks to the right with his head down, looking into a drinking vessel (skyphos) and pointing towards a woman, who leans back on a striped cushion. She has a large skyphos in her left hand, and raises her right hand palm up. Her hair is tied up with a fillet. A second youth at right crouches, right arm akimbo, left hand raised and gesticulating. B: Komos. A nude youth with an erection walks with both hands raised towards a nude woman who sits on the ground, playing clappers (krotala). A bearded man with a himation on his shoulders dances behind her with a staff in his hand. All three figures are wreathed.

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