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Accession_Number 45.6.1
Shape Skyphos
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/4
Decoration Pale buff ground. Inside is black and red in places. Main design: five women with long plaited hair dancing in a ring, holding wreaths between them. In field are large rosettes with concentric circles at centre and round objects with horizontal incisions between bands of vertical incisions. At base are elongated vertical lines and the foot is coloured red. Five bands on base.
Inscriptions
Condition One handle partly missing and large chip to interior surface and outside
Technique/Style Middle Corinthian
Provenance
Period Early Archaic
Date 575
Dating_details
Artist Patras Painter
Attribution Amyx 187.26 [50]
Image
Front view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.
Back view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.
Right side view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs and a broken handle.
Left side view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.
Back view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.
Front view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs, and a broken handle.
Bottom view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing concentric bands on base.

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Front view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.

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Back view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.

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Front view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.

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Back view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.

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Front view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing a dancing woman among rosettes and other designs.

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Top view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing red colour.

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Bottom view of a Corinthian kotyle, showing concentric bands on base.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 2.8; Amyx 1988, 187.26 [50]
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 7.1
Diameters Body 11.0; base 6.0
Handle_height 0.8
Other_dims.
Location Education
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Kinsey
Date_edited 23.07.2002; 31.03.2004; 06.01.2006
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