Fragmentary Kylix Attributed to the Kalliope Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2009

Fragmentary Terracotta Kylix (drinking cup)
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 430 BC
Attributed to the Kalliope Painter
Interior: Apollo and Kalliope
Exterior: lower bodies of two figures

Accession # 12.229.12

The Kalliope Painter was a somewhat older colleague in the same workshop as the Eretria Painter. He specialized in cups- this one is his namepiece. It shows the god Apollo seated in a chair. The standing woman is Kalliope. In the fifth century BC, the muses were not associated with with specific arts, as later. Kalliope, however, was often considered the mother of Orpheus.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.