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Drinking cup (kylix) with a youth playing a drinking game (kottabos)
Drinking cup (kylix) with a youth playing a drinking game (kottabos)

Drinking cup (kylix) with a youth playing a drinking game (kottabos)

The Villa Giulia Painter
about 450–440 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
Dimensions8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Thomas Gold Appleton
Accession number76.47
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Thomas G. Appleton Collection (purchased from Alessandro Castellani and said to be from Capua); gift of Thomas G. Appleton to MFA, 1876
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