What is Kottabos (Kleophrades Painter)?
{{italictitle}} {{More sources}} [[File:Kottabos Met 56.171.62.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Kottabos]] player by an associate of the Kleophrades Painter]] '''''Kottabos Player''''' is an Attic [[red-figure]] [[terracotta]] [[kylix]] said to have been painted by someone close to the [[Kleophrades Painter]]. It dates to the Greek Archaic period, about 500 BC. The kylix's height with handles is 3 3/16 in. (8.1&nbsp;cm) and its width with handles is 10 1/16 in. (25.5&nbsp;cm). The [[diameter]] of the bowl is 7 5/8 in. (19.3&nbsp;cm). The kylix is in the collections of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]]. The figure is a [[symposium|symposiast]] playing a party game called [[kottabos]]. He is about to fling the last of the wine in his cup at a lamp stand in an attempt to knock the lamp stand's finial off. The winner was he who did so. == References == * {{citation |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/130015423?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=56.171.62.&pos=1 |title=Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |accessdate=23 July 2012}} {{Europe-stub}} {{Ancient Greece: Arts and Culture}} [[Category:Ancient Greek pottery]] [[Category:Ancient Greek paintings]] [[Category:6th-century BC works]] [[Category:6th century BC in art]]