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Accession_Number 28.6.3
Shape Skyphos
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 5/4
Decoration Rim slightly offset. Originally two horizontal handles, now one left. Black inside and out except for the design which is reserved. Side A is an athlete with a strigil and B is a youth with a strigil. Beneath each handle are palmettes with side tendrils. Foot-ring is black inside and out resting surface reserved. Underneath is reserved, with 2 black circles at centre.
Inscriptions
Condition One handle missing (since 1.9.77 ? ) and paint completely worn off the other. Glaze remains shiny inside and out.
Technique/Style Red figure
Provenance From Rhodes
Period Late Classical
Date 400-350
Dating_details
Artist Fat Boy Group
Attribution Ure: 'Style of the Fat Boy Group'
Image

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Two attic red-figure skyphos, one of the right's accession number is 28.6.4

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Skyphos, side view, showing handle and palmette.

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Front view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Back view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Top view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the mouth and remaining handle.

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Top view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the reserved base and remaining handle.

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An Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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An Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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An Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Back view of a Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Back view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Back view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.

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Back view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth, facing right, holding a strigil.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1,44. pl.(555) 28.8a-c
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB 14277
Height 7.6
Diameters Rim 9.9; base 5.9
Handle_height 0.8
Other_dims.
Location 5.1 (AH71)
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Jayne
Date_edited 30.08.2002; 20.04.2004; 25.09.19
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