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Accession_Number 14.9.110B
Shape Feeder
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 7/4
Decoration Feeder but with no lid or strainer. Body is black inside and out. The side of the foot ring is grooved and black in patches. The base is flat and reserved around the edge but reddened in the most part with an irregular brown ring in the centre.
Inscriptions
Condition Both handle and most of spout are missing. Messy glaze around foot ring. Glaze remains shiny.
Technique/Style Black glaze
Provenance
Period High Classical
Date 450-425
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Feeder.

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Front view of small Attic black-glaze feeder.

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Side view of Attic black-glaze feeder showing broken handle and broken spout.

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Top view of Attic black-glaze feeder looking at wide rim into small closed mouth.

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Base of small Attic black-glaze feeder.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 39.11; Gill 1986, 458, V55
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 5.2
Diameters Opening 2.5; body 7.1; base 4.7
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 1.2.1
Edited_by Denise; Jasmin Payne; Jayne
Date_edited 23.08.2002; 18.07.2018; 16.03.22
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