# Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women

- By: Patras Painter (Greek, Middle Corinthian)
- Date: c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising
- Medium: ceramic
- Classification: Ceramic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); Overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Greek, Corinthian
- Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.221)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.221/1923.221_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Reassembled from 34 fragments, this cup bears ancient decoration that has been made more legible through modern repainting and re-incising, or re-scratching, of the internal details of figures and rosettes. Because they are irreversible and potentially misleading, such modern interventions are no longer seen as acceptable; when sold in 1922, the cup was described as “repaired,” albeit without additional explanation.