Red-figure cup fragment. Side A: on far right, below, rise into handle; left shoulder/upper arm with cloak of komast to left. c. 490

Curator: This small fragment, a Red-figure cup fragment, is attributed to Makron. It offers such a tiny glimpse into the past. Editor: It feels like peering into a void, doesn't it? A dark, glossy shard disconnected from its original context. Curator: It depicts a komast, a reveler, draped in a cloak, a fragment of a much larger narrative of celebration, probably Dionysian. I wonder about the hands that held this cup. Editor: The revelry is interesting, though, because it would also exclude those who were not welcome to revel—the enslaved, the foreigners, the women who were regulated to domestic life. It is a fragment of exclusion. Curator: Perhaps… But I like to imagine it complete, filled with wine, echoing laughter. Editor: I suppose even in fragments, objects hold many truths, both visible and obscured. Curator: Indeed. A tiny relic with endless stories to tell.