skyphos
- Museum number
- 1977,0521.2
- Description
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Pottery skyphos.
Clay: orange-brown clay, white grits, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: tall oblique lip, slightly offset from shallow gadrooned body; ring foot, reflex ribbon handles. Concave lid, with dented rim and central knob handle.
Decoration: Skyphos lip, dotted lozenge chain between lines. Body, against a dark ground, five tongues filled with latticing and in double outline. Paint near base. Handles, dots between lines. Interior coated but for reserved line under rim and blob on floor.
- Production date
- 740BC-730BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13 centimetres (of rim)
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Diameter: 18 centimetres
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Height: 7.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
Imitation of metallic gadrooning.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- half preserved, restored, but with full profile.
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1977,0521.2
