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Accession_Number 26.12.32
Shape Stemless cup
Shape_description Stemless; rim very slightly offset; two rounded handles protrude from just below the rim in an oblong shape; groove separating body from very small foot
Material Terracotta
Fabric Perhaps Boeotian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 8/6
Decoration Pale clay; greyish glaze, uneven reserved patches between handles (at join with body), inside of handles also reserved, reserved band above footring (possibly unintentional). Footring black with narrow reserved resting surface. Base reserved with large black disk in centre.
Inscriptions
Condition Complete and intact. Small chip on footring. Glaze slightly worn on rim and interior.
Technique/Style Black glaze
Provenance
Period High Classical
Date 450-400
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Boeotian black-gloss stemless cup, showing the interior.

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Top view of a Boeotian black-gloss stemless cup, showing handles and interior.

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Bottom view of a Boeotian black-gloss stemless cup, showing decorated underside.

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Black-glazed wares wares: a Boeotian stemless cup (26.12.32; left) and an Attic squat skyphos (37.11.5; right).

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Oblique view, from the side and below, of a Boeotian black-gloss stemless cup, showing handles and decorated underside.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 34.10
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 3.4
Diameters Mouth 7.4; base 4.3
Handle_height 0.5
Other_dims.
Location Symposium
Edited_by Faye; Karen; Kinsey; Teifi. Joana Varela
Date_edited 13.07.2003; 21.04.2004; 10.01.2006; 31.07.2006; 05.04.2017
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