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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/27.4.11

Accession_Number

27.4.11

Shape

Skyphos

Shape_description

Corinthian shape. Pale fabric, darkened except under handles and foot.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Boeotian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

Decoration

The interior is black, but reserved at the bottom of the bowl. There is a red line around the lip. The body is decorated with figural scenes. A: Two sphinxes. B: A female figure (Artemis or 'Mistress of animals'?) between two lions (alternate stripes of white and red indicate the ribs and hindquarters of the lions). Beneath each handle stands a water bird (swan?) facing to the right. Rosettes and rows of dots in the field. Below the figural zone are two red lines, then a black band, a frieze of narrow black rays (slightly overlapping the black band above). The ring foot is black on the exterior and resting surface. The central part of the underside is decorated with a black dot at centre, surrounded by a black dircle and, farther out, a red circle. White is used on parts of the lions, necks and breasts of sphinxes and woman, and parts of the wings of birds.

Inscriptions

Condition

Repaired from many fragments, but heavily restored in the lower part.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

From Greece

Period

High Archaic / Late Archaic

Date

550-500

Dating_details

Artist

Rhitsona Class F

Attribution

Related to the skyphoi of Rhitsona Class F, according to CVA.

Image

2002.97.0288.jpg	Top view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing interior.
2002.97.0289.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing the main design on the body.
2002.97.0290.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing the main design on the body.
2002.97.0291.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing part of the main design on the body.
2002.97.0292.jpg	Underside view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing the base.
2002.97.0293.jpg	Top view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing the interior, the chipped rim and both of the handles.
2003.15.0001.jpg	Oblique view, slightly from below, of the side of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing some of the base and a swan below the handle.
2003.15.0009.jpg	Front view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing antithetic sphinxes.

2003.15.0011.jpg	Back view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing a woman between two lions.
2004.05.0009.jpg	Front view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing Artemis between lions.
2004.05.0010.jpg	Detailed 3/4-front view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing Artemis between lions and a water bird beneath the handle.
2004.05.0011.jpg	3/4-back view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing a sphinx and a waterbird beneath the handle.
2004.05.0012.jpg	Front view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing Artemis between lions.
2007.01.0034.jpg	Front view a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing Artemis between lions.
2007.01.0035.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing Artemis or the 'Mistress of Animals' between lions, on the body.
2007.01.0036.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing part of the main design on the body.
2007.01.0037.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing part of the main design on the body.
2007.01.0038.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing Artemis or the 'Mistress of Animals' between lions, on the body.
2007.01.0039.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian skyphos, showing Artemis or the 'Mistress of Animals' between lions, on the body.