Attic red-figure stemmed pottery cup depicting a Dionysiac scene

Details

• Title

  Attic red-figure stemmed pottery cup depicting a Dionysiac scene

• Artist/maker

  attributed to The Briseis Painter (490 - 470 BC)

• Associated place

  The Greek World › Greece (find spot)

  The Greek World › Greece › Attica (place of creation)

• Date

  490 BC - 470 BC
  Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC)

• Material and technique

  pottery, with painted decoration

• Object type

  container › vessel › cup › drinking-cup › stemmed cup › kylix › cup type B

• Dimensions

  11.2 cm (height)
  rim 27.4 cm (diameter)
  foot 10.5 cm (diameter)
  34.5 cm (width)
  0.4 cm (rim thickness)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Purchased, 1944.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1944.87

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