Attic Red-figure Cup Fragment

Getty Museum

Attic Red-figure Cup Fragment

Creator

Epiktetos

Painter

All works by this person →
Artist

Epiktetos painted vases in Athens in the period from about 520 to 490 B.C. He worked in red-figure in the early days of the technique, but he also produced several bilingual cups with red-figure decoration on the exterior and black-figure on the interior, a type that was popular in this period. Epiktetos specialized in the decoration of cups, but he produced a range of other shapes as well. Schola

More on Getty ULAN
Date
about 510–500 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
Getty Museum

Preserved is a rim fragment depicting a helmeted warrior to right holding a spear and shield, and a partial helmet (worn tilted off the head) to right at the left.

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page
See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.