Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

Tleson Painter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Obverse, siren and panther; Reverse, two sphinxes The band-cup was produced concurrently with the lip-cup. The two shapes are often designated "Little Master cups," owing to their small scale. Some artists, such as Tleson and his painter-collaborator, worked on both shapes. the ban-cup is a darker vase than the lip cup, with the decoration confined to a clay-colored zone between the handles. The motifs, however, tend to be similar.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art