band-cup

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.105
Description: Attic black figure band cup; hemispherical cup on a pedestal base; pair of opposing horizontal handles; on both sides are depicted, in a band between the handles, a central siren with extended wings, flanked by men wrapped in cloaks holding a staff; tendrils on each side of the handles with added white and purple paint.
Cultures/periods: Archaic Greek; Attic
Production date: 575BC-550BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site D, tomb 38
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: slipped; incised; wheel-made; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 20.32 centimetres; Height: 11.43 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 117, Tomb 38; pp. 111 & fig. 163, no. 2); Gjerstad et al. GGAPC / Greek Geometric and Archaic pottery found in Cyprus (No. 451, p. 48; pl. XLIV, 5); CVA British Museum 2 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2 (III H e Pl. 15, 8)
Location: Not on display
Condition: vase repaired from fragments and restored in places; surviving surfaces worn.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.105

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