Black-Figure Band Skyphos (Drinking Cup): Sirens, Stags, and Panthers
attributed to Group of Rhodes 11941 (Greek, Attic)
c. 540 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 13.1 x 29.9 cm (5 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Maud Eells Corning
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A siren, a mythological woman-headed bird, stands at the center of the figural band on either side of this cup, her wings spread and head turned to the left. Flanking her are a pair of grazing stags, with a panther on either side facing inward. Inside, the cup is sparsely decorated, its reserved tondo holding a dot within concentric circles.
