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Accession_Number REDMG:1935.87.11
Shape Kylix
Shape_description The base is raised to provide a foot on which to support the weight of the cup.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/4
Decoration Exterior decorated with vertical black/brown bands. Both handles are coloured brown on the outer parts, but reserved inside. The base is decorated with a black band on its exterior. On the interior of the rim is a broad black band, then a red band. The design in the tondo shows two ears of grain on either side of a red rosebud on a stem (or a lotos, according to the authors of Corinth 15.3).
Inscriptions
Condition Large chip missing from rim on one edge. Some gloss worn inside the cup where portions have flaked.
Technique/Style
Provenance
Period High Classical
Date 450-425
Dating_details
Artist Sam Wide Group
Attribution Corinth 15.3, 369 and 370 n. 6: classed, along with similar miniatures, to a group of 'lotos kylikes', attributed to the workshop of the Sam Wide Painter.
Image
Top view of a Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group), showing grain sheaves and a rosebud on the interior.

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Top view of a Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group), showing grain sheaves and a rosebud on the interior.

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Bottom view of a Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group), showing grain sheaves and a rosebud on the interior, showing the base.

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Top view of a Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group), showing grain sheaves and a rosebud on the interior.

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Top view of a Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group).

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Oblique view of Corinthian kylix (of the Sam Wide Group), from above, showing vertical bands on the exterior and a rosebud on the interior.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 16.6; JHS 69 (1949) 21, fig. 4; Amyx 1988, 276.12, 468
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 2.7
Diameters Body 9.3
Handle_height 0.6
Other_dims. W. incl. handles 13.2
Location Technique
Edited_by Denise; Karen
Date_edited 15.07.2002; 05.04.2004
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