RF mug – Seated Eros Prehistoric Handmade hand-thrown in fine Attic-style terracotta

hand-thrown in fine Attic-style terracotta and coated with a lustrous black glaze

The original decoration was finely executed

This vessel celebrates both artistic ingenuity and protective symbolism in early Athenian pottery

Mug from Phylakopi II

“Ostrakon” Discovery kit

RF mug – Seated Eros Prehistoric Handmade hand-thrown in fine Attic-style terracottaRed figure kypellon with seated Eros, Classical Period, ca. 450430 BCE. Compact and beautifully proportioned, this squat mug (kypellon) carries one of antiquity's most powerful images: Eros, winged and at rest, seated with the easy composure of a god between errands. The kypellon form, low, wide bellied, with a flared rim and small loop handle, was a vessel of the household, intimate in scale and handled daily. Here it becomes a vehicle for some of