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Accession_Number

11.10.21

Shape

Cup-skyphos

Shape_description

If the foot is restored correctly this is a variant of Ure's type K 2 (Ure 1927, 68), which is the most common Haemonian skyphos, as judged by the Agora material: cf. Agora 23, 60, esp. no. 1516, pl. 103 (with the same type of foot); ABV 565-71, 598-710 Slightly concave black rim; shallow bowl with flat underside; moulded ring foot, with concave inner surface.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/4

Decoration

Black glaze covers the interior. Exterior of the rim black; black ground line at bottom of figural scene; black on lower part of body and exterior of foot, except for two reserved grooved lines on the top and lower part of foot. Reserved resting surface. Underside decorated with black circle at the center, surrounded by a thin black band. Interior of the foot black . Scene is similar on both sides: between palmettes a charioteer driving a quadriga, or two-horse chariot, to the right. Incised detail on all figures. Careless design, no details.

Inscriptions

Condition

Comprised of rejoined fragments, restored where fragments were missing (e.g. in handle zones) and slightly repainted. Blaze is not shiny on the interior and exterior. On the lower part of the body and the foot it is fired brownish. Parts of the clay have been scratched away om the lower part of the body and the exterior of the foot leaving an uneven surface. Small chips on the body.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

From Rhitsona, Boeotia

Period

Late Archaic

Date

500-475

Dating_details

Artist

Haimon Group: Haimon Painter

Attribution

Manner of the Haimon Painter

Image

2003.92.0380.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing a man riding a quadriga (four-horse chariot) to the right.
2003.92.0381.jpg	Left side view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing the area where a handle would have been attached (now restored).
2003.92.0382.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing a man riding a quadriga (four-horse chariot) to the right.
2003.92.0383.jpg	Right side view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing the area where a handle would have been attached (now restored).
2003.92.0384.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing the interior of the bowl.
2003.92.0385.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure cup-skyphos, showing the decorated underside.
2008.99.0777.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, showing a charioteer.
2008.99.0778.jpg	Profile view of the front of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, showing a charioteer.
2008.99.0779.jpg	Profile view of the side of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, palmettes.
2008.99.0780.jpg	Profile view of the back of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, showing a charioteer.
2008.99.0781.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of the back of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, showing a charioteer.
2008.99.0782.jpg	Profile view of the side of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, restored without handles, showing palmettes, and a charioteer (at right).
2008.99.0783.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figured cup-skyphos, showing the bowl interior.
2008.99.0784.jpg	Oblique bottom view of an Attic cup-skyphos, restored without handles.