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Accession_Number 2004.8.3
Shape Skyphos
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 6/6
Decoration Nine, black palmettes in a fan arrangement, with unidentified black object to the right, which has a reversed 'z' incision. The reverse side is black in colour.
Inscriptions
Condition Single fragment of four sides (kite shaped). The reserved background has an incision (L. 1.6) which cuts into the sixth palmette. Five palmettes are partially faded in colour. On the reverse of the fragment, the black paint has been eroded along the edges of breakage.
Technique/Style Black figure
Provenance
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Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image


2006.20.0561.jpg
Top view of an Attic skyphos fragment, showing black palmettes in a fan arrangement.

2006.20.0562.jpg
Top view of an Attic skyphos fragment, showing black reverse.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
Beazley_DB
Height
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Handle_height
Other_dims. L. 4.9; W. 3.2
Location 11.1.6
Edited_by Lucia
Date_edited 20.08.2004
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