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Black-glazed terracotta stemless kylix with two horizontal handles and an incised rosette pattern in its shallow interior, on a gray background.

Stemless Kylix (Drinking Cup), Ancient Greek, 460-450 BCE

A shallow, stemless drinking cup with two horizontal handles, its black-glazed interior bearing a central rosette of incised petals encircled by a ring of scalloped lines. The dark glaze is smooth and slightly worn at the rim, and the vessel is photographed against a plain gray background.

Artist
Ancient Greek
Date
460-450 BCE
Medium
terracotta, black-glaze
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1685 px
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson