chalice
- Museum number
- AshmLoan.556
- Description
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Rim sherd of Chian black-figured Komast pottery chalice; white slip; interior: reserved band at rim, glazed streaky black below; part of lotus flower in added white outline; exterior: narrow brown band on top of rim; below, black-figure decoration consisting of female figure (head with added red on hair remaining) to left.
- Production date
- 560BC-550BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11 centimetres (circa)
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Height: 1.90 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.20 centimetres
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Width: 3.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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Lemos places this sherd in Group E of the Black Figure Komast chalices. The chalices in this group do not contain any filling ornament, details of the komasts are rendered very simply and inner decoration is basic.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Registration number
- AshmLoan.556
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AN1896-1908-G.115.8 (Accession Number)