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Accession_Number

50.4.11

Shape

Stemless cup

Shape_description

Castulo cup. Cf. Agora 12, 101-2

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Reddish-yellow clay

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Black glaze is rather silvered. Rim offset outside and inside. Two oblong, horizontal handles bending upwards, one higher than the other. Resting surface and underside of the base are reserved with a dot and black painted band around it. Foot is moulded in ridges.

Inscriptions

Condition

Chip in rim partly repaired but some still missing. Glaze flakked off on rim, handles. Not applied carefully. Handle has been assembed by 2 pieces and part of it is missing.Depositions on the grrove just before the foot.

Technique/Style

Black glaze

Provenance

Said to be from Pompeii

Period

High Classical

Date

450-400

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.97.0503.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing interior.
2003.97.0504.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing interior and chipped rim.
2003.97.0505.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing interior.
2008.10.0025.jpg	Profile drawing of an Attic black-glazed Castulo cup.
2010.98.0312.jpg	Oblique view from above of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing the handles and the interior.
2010.98.0313.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing the handles and damage on the rim .
2010.98.0314.jpg	Left view of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing the damaged left handle.
2010.98.0315.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup', showing the handles.
2010.98.0316.jpg	Right view of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup'.
2010.98.0317.jpg	View of the base of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup'.
2010.98.0318.jpg	Over head view of an Attic black-glaze 'Castulo cup'.