Kylix with Octopus Decoration in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018

Goblet with Octopus Decoration 

Unknown (Artist)

Date: 13th century BC

Culture: Mycenaean

Category: Ceramics
Containers-Vessels

Medium: terracotta

Collection: Ancient Art

Dimensions: Overall (at handles): 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (16.51 × 21.27 cm)

Object Number: 60.26



The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses.

Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-161358053