Kylix with Revelers in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Attic Red-Figure Cup Type B

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Culture: Greek (Attic)

Place: Athens, Greece, Europe (Place created)

Date: about 500–490 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

Object Number: 86.AE.283

Dimensions: 8.9 × 29.2 cm (3 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)

Inscription(s): Inscriptions: tondo: KALOS retrograde, K..LO A: behind the maenad's head: ]D..P[?] retrograde; in front of her KA[ ]OS. Below handle B/A: uncertain letters B: behind the maenad: ALO; in front of the satyr, AL

Object Type: Cup


I: Two youthful revelers. Each is nude but for a himation. The right one wears a fancy head-dress and holds a large skyphos and a cane. The left figure, who is wreathed and holds a stick, puts his arm around his comrade's shoulder. A and B, each: Satyr and a nude maenad on either side of a column krater. On both sides, the maenad holds a skyphos in her right hand. On B, the satyr dips his drinking vessel in the krater.

Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12075/unknown-maker-attic-red-figure-cup-type-b-greek-attic-about-500-490-bc