skyphos
- Museum number
- 1876,0909.44
- Description
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Pottery skyphos (cup) with white decoration on a red ground.
- Production date
- 250 BC-100 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.78 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Belongs to Lund's Cypriot-made West Slope type E ('A tall skyphos with carinated body and lateral arched handles') (Lund 2015, 96-104). The ware as a whole circulated between around 250/225 BC and the beginning of the 1st century BC, with a possible concentration between 200 and 150 BC (p. 104). See also Lund 2006, 34-5 and fig. 1. See Salles 1993, 184 nos 201-202 for examples from Kition, though he suggests a source in southern Turkey which Lund rejects (2006, 35 note 44).
Bibliography:
Lund J. 2015, A study of the circulation of ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. Gösta Enbom Monographs (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press).
Lund J. 2006, 'On the circulation of goods in Hellenistic and early Roman Cyprus: the ceramic evidence', in eds L. Wriedt Sørensen and K. Winther Jacobsen, Panayia Ematousa II. Political, cultural and social relations in Cyprus. Approaches to regional studies. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 6,2, 31-49.
Salles J.-F. 1993, Kition-Bamboula IV: Les niveaux héllenistiques (Paris: ERC).
- Location
- On display (G72/dc10)
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1876,0909.44