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Accession_Number 47.2.3
Shape Stemless cup
Shape_description Castulo cup: large stemless cup with inset lip. Slightly outturned rim with concave lip, inset on interior and exterior, below which are attached two horizontal round handles, oblong in shape, incurved and rising slightly over the rim. Shallow bowl divided from a spreading, lipped torus ring foot by a broad groove.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 6/6
Decoration Black glazed except reserved interior of handles, panels beneath handles, foot except inner surface of foot ring and concentric black circle around central black dot.
Inscriptions
Condition Glaze chipped at rim and worn in patches, especially in interior of bowl. Small chips on the exterior of the body. Scratches around the body. Gloss is not lustrous.
Technique/Style Black glaze
Provenance Marion, tomb K12 (Cyprus)
Period Early Classical
Date 480-470
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Front view of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup, showing top of interior.

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Oblique view from above of Attic black-glaze stemless cup showing the interior.

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Front view of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup (upside down), showing base and handles.

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Oblique view, from above, of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup, showing the underside.

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Oblique frontal view of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup, showing top of interior.

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Oblique frontal view of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup, showing the interior.

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Top view of an Attic black-glaze stemless cup, showing the worn interior of the bowl.

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Bottom view of an Attic black-glaze kylix, showing the decorated underside.

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Profile drawing of an Attic black-glazed stemless cup.
Comparanda
Bibliography Gill 1986, 386, J151, pl. 56 On the Castulo cup see Shefton 1990
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 4.6
Diameters Rim 15.5; base 8.5
Handle_height 0.9
Other_dims.
Location Symposium
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Kinsey; Teifi
Date_edited 22.08.2002; 01.12.2003; 10.01.2006; 28.07.2006
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