Shape
Kylix
κύλιξ
27209 vases
The wide, shallow drinking cup of the symposium. The interior tondo — revealed as the drinker emptied the cup — was a prized space for painters. Some of the most intimate and inventive compositions appear inside kylikes.
Function & Use
Drinking wine at the symposium
27209 examples
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
500–450 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
500–450 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Kylix Fragment
RF
about 500–475 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
500–450 B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
about 500–480 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
Pithos Painter
· about 500–490 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Kylix Fragment
RF
Epeleios Painter
· about 500–475 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
Leafless Group, Caylus Painter
· about 500–480 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Red-Figure Kylix
RF
Apollodoros
· about 500 B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Type C
RF
Apollodoros
· about 500 B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment (comprised of 2 Joined Fragments)
RF
Euaichme Painter
· 500–480 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
Brygos Painter
· 500–450 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Kylix Fragment
RF
about 500–480 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Kylix Fragment
RF
Epeleios Painter
· about 500–475 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment (comprised of 2 joined fragments)
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
500–450 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment
RF
about 500–490 B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment
BF
6th century B.C.
Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment (comprised of 6 Joined Fragments)
BF
6th century B.C.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
500–480 BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
5th century
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
500–475 BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
500–475 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix or skyphos?
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
first half of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Eight fragments of a terracotta kylix, joining 12.231.2
Onesimos
· ca. 500 BCE
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
490–480 BCE
Fragment of a terracotta kylix
ca. 480 BCE
Fragment of a terracotta kylix
ca. 480 BCE
Fragment of a terracotta kylix
1st half of the 5th century BCE
Fragment of a terracotta kylix
1st quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
second quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
mid-5th century BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)