kylix;
cup
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.287
- Description
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Type C Attic black glaze pottery stemmed cup (kylix); wheel-made; wide shallow bowl with a tall concave lip; concave stem, merging with the bowl, and wide foot with chamfered edge; pair of opposing horizontal handles curving rising up to the height of the rim; buff-orange clay covered with a lustrous black slip inside and out; slip reserved on the edge of the foot and in a band around the underside of the foot; slip worn and vessel chipped in places.
- Production date
- 520BC-480BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12 centimetres
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Height: 5.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For the type, see Sparkes and Talcott 1970, 91-92 & pl. 19 (Type C, concave lip). For imports of Attic pottery found in modern excavations at Amathus, see Thalmann 1977, 81-4 and Robertson 1987.
Bibliography:
Sparkes B. and Talcott L 1970, The Athenian Agora XII. Black and plain pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (Princeton, 1970).
Robertson M. 1987, 'The Attic pottery', in V. Karageorghis et al. (eds), La Nécropole D'Amathonte. Tombes 113-367. II. Céramiques non Chypriotes (Nicosia). 32-43..
Thalmann J.P. 1977, 'Céramique trouvée à Amathonte' in E. Gjerstad et al. 'Greek Geometric and Archaic pottery found in Cyprus' (Lund), 65-86.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.287
