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Accession_Number 14.9.84
Shape Siana cup
Shape_description Fragment of bowl of Attic black-figured pottery Siana cup;
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description Ground yellowish-buff clay with no finished edges to the fragment.
Munsell_color 7.5YR 5/4
Decoration Interior: reserved band below junction of bowl and lip; below, glazed black; exterior: lip glazed with thin reserved line at join with bowl; below, black figure decoration consisting of horseback riders (only head including mane and reins, neck and breast with added red, shoulder and upper forelegs of one horse and tail of second remaining), to right; at far right, possibly incised pinwheel rosette as filling ornament;
Inscriptions
Condition Small flakes of paint worn from underside. Not at all a clean break. The colour and design on front remains in good condition.
Technique/Style painted, incised; black-figure
Provenance Naukratis (Made in Attica)
Period Archaic
Date 575-550
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.02.0006.jpg
Top view of fragment of a Siana cup, showing the mane and head of a bridled horse.

2013.04.0019.jpg
Top view of fragment of a Siana cup, showing the mane and head of a bridled horse.

2013.04.0020.jpg
Top view of fragment of a Siana cup.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1,p.5, pl. 2, no.11; Villing et al 2013-2015 (ORC) GA.0667 Phase 1;
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 3.1
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Thickness 0.3 Width: 3.90
Location Greece
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Kinsey; Adel;
Date_edited 20.10.2002; 31.03.2004; 09.01.2006;2019;
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