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lip-cup(hybrid); siana cup(hybrid)

Object Type: lip-cup (hybrid); siana cup (hybrid)
Museum number: 1836,0224.260
Description: Pottery: black-figured hybrid Siana/lip-cup. Purple accessories. On either side of the handles, palmettes. At the point of insertion of the stem in the bowl is a spike in imitation of metal. Exterior, inscription.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 555BC-545BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 24.75 centimetres; Height: 10.15 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases C.I.Gr. 8188; Brunn, Künstlergesch. ii. p. 693; Klein, Meistersig. p. 82, No. 2. For the imitation spike, cf. Vase Β382.; An unusual version of the Siana cup shape with elements of a lip cup, cf. Brijder 2000, p. 624.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B412); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (685); CVA British Museum 2 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2 (III H e Pl . 14, 8); Brijder Siana III 2000 / Siana Cups III: The Red-black Painter, Griffin-bird Painter, and Siana Cups resembling Lip-cups (pp. 6245 no. 601 figs 155-6, p. 694 no. 601, pl. 198d); ABV / Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (P. 166)
Location: On display (G13/dc8)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edmé Antoine Durand (sale); Purchased through: Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1836,0224.260