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Accession_Number 2014.3.1
Shape Cup
Shape_description Curved pottery fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 6/6
Decoration Fragment exterior/ convex side: female lyre player (left), draped and reclining in a Symposium context. The lyre-player's face is executed in added white, as is the lyre. There is an ivy branch behind her. On the right, the beginnings of another robed figure and their kline appear. Drapery and lyre strings incised. Fragment interior/ concave side: completely black.
Inscriptions
Condition Fragment. Patches missing from glaze/slip on exterior and interior.
Technique/Style Black figure
Provenance
Period Late Archaic / Early Classical
Date 525-475
Dating_details
Artist Haimon Group: Manner of the Haimon Painter
Attribution Beazley
Image

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Comparanda
Bibliography Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 564.592
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB 331688
Height 6.4cm (top left to bottom right corner)
Diameters Width at top: 3.8cm. Width at bottom: 1.5cm.
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 11.2.20
Edited_by jayne; Aimee Pavitt; Elsie Balch
Date_edited 12.10.2016; 23/06/22; 12.08.2025
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