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A work made of terracotta, black-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup)

560-550 BCE

Attributed to the Workshop of the "Bird-frieze Painter" Greek; Corinth

Corinth

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.

terracotta, black-figure

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium