Komast cup

[2] The name is derived from the artists' preferred theme, the kōmos, a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as komasts (κωμασταί, kōmastaí).

[3] This is a motif closely connected with Etruscan vase painting.

The typical hemispherical shape with an angled "offset" lip and a low foot of only 1–2 centimetres (0.4–0.8 in) height was an Attic development.

[4] The interior of the cups is black, only a narrow stripe or band below the lip is left in the base clay colour.

The first specimens were quite large, but throughout the period of their production, the cups became gradually smaller.