Detail of a Terracotta Kylix Attributed to Makron as Painter and Signed by Hieron as Potter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)


Signed by Hieron as potter


Attributed to Makron


Period: Late Archaic

Date: ca. 490 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: diameter (estimated) 12 15/16in. (32.8cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fried Gift, 1979 (1979.11.8)
Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundtion Inc and Stuart Tray Gifts, 1978 (1978.11.7b, c)
The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1988 (1988.11.4)
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1989 (1989.42)
Gift of Mrs. Frieda Tchacos, in honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1990 (1990.120)
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1994 (1994.172)

Accession Number: 1979.11.8

Interior, man and woman reclining
Exterior, obverse and reverse, men and youths

The integration of mortal and immortal participants in a single scene appears throughout Greek vase-painting. Here, on the exterior, a group of older and younger men is joined by a youth with a cock and a bearded man with a scepter who strongly suggest Ganymede and Zeus. To the right, a boy with a lyre raises his right hand in surprise and flees.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255651