Kylix (Drinking Cup)
Ancient Greek (Greek; Corinth)
560-550 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-figure
- Classification
- Vessel
- Dimensions
- 7 × 22.9 × 17.5 cm (2 3/4 × 9 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Corinth
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Alfred Emerson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This handle area of this drinking cup is decorated, on both sides, with a bird with its head turned back (red dots on the neck), which is flanked by griffin-birds with raised wings (red necks). There is no decoration below the animal frieze. There is no decoration inside.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
