lip-cup

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Object Type: lip-cup
Museum number: 1851,0507.2
Description: Pottery: black-figured lip cup. Purple accessories. On either side of the handles, a palmette. Exterior, on either side: Above, panther to right; on either side, and below, imitation inscriptions.
Cultures/periods: Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC (circa)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Corinth
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 215 millimetres; Height: 151 millimetres; Weight: 462 grammes; Width: 287 millimetres; Depth: 212 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B405); CVA British Museum 2 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2 (III H e Pl. 14, 1)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Rather worn
Subjects: mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: P J Green
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1851,0507.2
Conservation: Treatment: 24 Sep 2024

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