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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/71.6.3

Accession_Number

71.6.3

Shape

Skyphos

Shape_description

Two thick, rounded, horizontal handles, one on each side just below rim. Broad body with near horizontal sides; torus ring foot

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/4

Decoration

Inside is streaky black showing red through. Handles and outside are also black. Side A: A woman standing with her back to a chair, holding out a fillet in her right hand. Side B: A youth in himation holding two spears (?) of which heads are not visible, being too tall for space avaliable. The detail on both figures is picked out in black paint. Two ruddled bands run around base of pot below figures. Foot is black on top and side and inside foot ring; resting surface and underside reserved. Base is ruddled and has three black bands and a central black dot.

Inscriptions

Base: grafitti

Condition

Complete but repaired. Figures remain clear but the black glaze has become streaky. Paint surface flaked away inside by one handle revealing the clay.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

Early Classical

Date

460-450

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.97.0630.jpg	Oblique view of side A of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a woman.
2003.97.0631.jpg	Oblique view of side B of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a youth.
2003.97.0632.jpg	Top view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the inside of the cup.
2003.97.0633.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the reserved base.
2005.89.0060.jpg
2005.90.0036.jpg
2008.99.0715.jpg	Oblique view of side B of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a beardless cloaked man, profile to the right.
2008.99.0716.jpg	Frontal view of side B of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a beardless cloaked man, profile to the right.
2008.99.0717.jpg	Right side view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the handle.
2008.99.0718.jpg	Frontal view of side A of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a woman, profile to the left.
2008.99.0719.jpg	Oblique view of side A of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing a woman, profile to the left.
2008.99.0720.jpg	Left side view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the handle.
2008.99.0721.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the handles.
2008.99.0722.jpg	Top view of an Attic red-figure skyphos, showing the handles and the interior.