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Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles): two female heads
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Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles): two female heads

Red-figure Attributed to the Brygos Painter · Kantharos · ca. 490–480 BCE
Kantharos in the form of two female heads. Greek, Attic. Archaic. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912. Gallery 157.

Attribution History

Current
Met Museum catalogue
Source: met_import

Depicted Scenes

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Daily life
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Mythology
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Mythology

Bibliography

27 references
Books & Monographs
Grandjean, C., Hugoniot, C., and Lion, B. (eds.), Le banquet du monarque dans le monde antique (Rennes and Tours, 2013) (2013) — 410, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF A)
Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013) (2013) — 167, FIG.141 (DRAWING OF A AND B)
Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007) (2007) — 102, NO.109 (COLOUR OF B)
Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006) (2006) — 248, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF A)
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990) (1990) — PL.28.117 (PART OF B)
Bothmer, D. von, Greek Vase Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1987) (1987) — 50-51, 70, NO.25
Bothmer, D. v., Greek Vase Painting, An Introduction (New York, 1987) (1987) — 48-49, 66, NO.21 (A, B, SIDE)
Wegner, M., Brygosmaler (Berlin, 1973) (1973) — PL.34C (B)
Richter, G., Perspective in Greek and Roman Art (London [1970]) (1970) — FIG.86 (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
Richter, G. & Hall, L., Red-figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New Haven, 1936) (1936) — PLS.43, 178.43
Richter, G., The sculpture and sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven, 1929) (1929) — FIG.483
Shapes of Greek Vases (New York, 1922) (1922) — 23.2 (B)
Richter, G., Handbook of the Classical Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1917) (1917) — 101
Pollak, L., Munoz, A., and Stroganov, G., Pieces de choix de la collection du comte Gregoire Stroganoff aa` Rome (Rome, 1911-12) (1911) — PLS.35-6
Omnibus — 69, 32 (COLOUR OF B)
Journal Articles
Metropolitan Museum Journal (2010) — 45 (2010) 31, FIG.17 (NA)
Antike Welt (1988) — (1988), SONDERNUMMER, 31, FIG.48 (DRAWING OF A)
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972) — 31 (1972-73) FIG.21 (A,B)
Journal of Hellenic Studies (1929) — 49 (1929) 57 (A)
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1913) — 8 (1913) 158
Catalogues & Reference Works
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 227
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982) (1982) — 113
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971) (1971) — 366
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 382.183, 1538
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942) (1942) — 254.137
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 181.78
Beazley, J.D., Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, 1918) (1918) — 92 (A)

Provenance

2 recorded events
Discovery
Capua, Italy
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First recorded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Current location
Shape
Technique
Period
Archaic
Date
ca. 490–480 BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Attribution
Attributed
Findspot
Capua, Italy
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
12.234.5
Image Source
met_cc0
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