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erracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

ca. 325–300 B.C.

Attributed to the Tondo Group

You can find this piece at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 170

The ancient Etruscan cup made of an orange-brown terracotta.

Created in the Hellenistic period, it holds a figure of a woman surrounded by detailed decorative floral elements, and tendrils.

 

Rogers Fund, 1951 (51.11.1)

 

Attributed to the Tondo Group

 

Date: ca. 325–300 B.C.

 

Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); diameter 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)

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