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Accession_Number 26.5.1
Shape Skyphos
Shape_description Two oblong handles, one on each side. Base is convex.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Perhaps Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 5/6
Decoration Inside black apart from a reserved band around rim and disk in bottom. The Handles are black on top and reserved underneath. Both sides are the same, with a bird (duck/swan) on each side between palmette with curling stem. Under one handle is an ivy leaf on a stem. Below are bands. Red band around top of foot.
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Condition Foot missing resulting in skyphos not standing upright. Glaze has been lost on the inside of the object. Crack down one side.
Technique/Style Black figure; silhouette
Provenance Probably from Greece
Period Early Classical
Date 475-450
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Two Attic (?) black-figure skyphoi (29.11.5 at left and 26.5.1 at right).

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Skyphos, side view. Decoration showing bird between two palmettes.

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Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1,19, pl.(538) 11.3
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB 14358
Height 7.7
Diameters 9.6
Handle_height 3.9
Other_dims.
Location Excavation shed top 3
Edited_by Denise; Karen. Joana Varela; Jayne
Date_edited 29.08.2002; 05.04.2004. 05.04.2017; 03.08.2022
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