Terracotta kylix: Komast cup (drinking cup)
Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
575 B. C. approx.
9.5 cm height; 21 cm diameter
The black-figure technique was introduced into Athens from Corinth at the end of the seventh century B.C. During the early sixth century, Attic cup painters favored Corinthian motifs, like these dancing revelers. Indeed, the Komast cup is the earliest canonical type of Attic black-figure kylix.
Ancient Greece