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Accession_Number 2004.8.5
Shape Skyphos
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 6/6
Decoration Eleven, black palmettes in fan arrangement, two of which are joined at the stems. Left of the palmettes there is a verticle black line with a series of small black dots, parallel, either side (ten left of the line and eight right of the line) which is believed to be a branch of a tree. Right of the palmettes there is a solid, thin black line (L. 3.8).
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Condition Single fragment of four sides, roughly broken. White, green and brown deposits visible on the surface decoration. Paint has been weathered and worn on the reverse side of the fragment.
Technique/Style Black figure
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Image


2006.20.0569.jpg
Top view of an Attic skyphos fragment, showing black palmettes in a fan arrangement.


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Top view of an Attic skyphos fragment.
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Archive_Ref reference 1
Beazley_DB
Height
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Handle_height
Other_dims. L. 6.4; W. 3.6
Location 11.1.6
Edited_by Lucia
Date_edited 20.08.2004
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