Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Inside a red-figure drinking cup, a woman in a flowing chiton strides to the right, holding a small cup aloft in one hand and a long staff topped with a pine-cone-like finial in the other. Black glaze fills the ground around her, and fine incised lines define the drapery folds and hair.

Look closer: A small bird figure perches near the upper edge of the cup's interior, partly hidden by the glaze.

Artist

Poseidon Painter

Date

ca. 510–500 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2000 × 1500 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1923