Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior, top of head of youth and lower legs of a youth playing aulos, above aulos KALOS, retr.; one fragment has part of a basket; another has part of a pillow and drapery?; Obverse, under the handle, top right corner of an altar; door with meat? hanging from it; part of the lower body of a draped youth to left, wearing a himation, holding a branch in his right hand; lower drapery of a figure and part of a column base?; youth with himation to left, with his raised right arm bent; under the handle, a louterion resting on a base; Reverse, tree with cloak draped over one of the branches; bearded man wearing himation, with shield and spear, helmet in field, upright spear, right arm and shoulder of figure; From the exterior: fragment with drapery and tablet? with silhouette form; fragment with a silhouette tripod; fragment with drapery and part of a round shield?; fragment with drapery and part of the arm of a youth to left?; sheared fragment; black glazed fragment; part of foot and stem of kylix

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

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