Kylix (Drinking Cup)
about 540-530 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-figure
- Classification
- Vessel
- Dimensions
- 9.2 × 20.5 × 14.6 cm (3 5/8 × 8 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Polis
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through The Antiquarian Society
- 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 is an example of the most popular type of wine cup in ancient Greece, the kylix. Rising from a round foot and a thin stem, the cup flares out to a wide bowl with two handles on opposite sides. In the decorative band around the lip of this cup, a human figure in Grecian dress is depicted in the company of a lion.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
