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Accession_Number 26.2.64
Shape Chalice
Shape_description Body sherd of Chian Mature Animal Style pottery chalice;
Material Terracotta
Fabric Chiot
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 5/3
Decoration Exterior creamy ground white with a pattern of nearly parallel brown curves that get increasingly shorter, creating a pie slice shape (perhaps the folds of skin on the neck of a bull, fracing right), along with part of a lower eyelid. Interior black with a red line alone one edge. Right above the red line is a white line. There are also a few other splotches of white, probably white outline of lotus flower (or two) with a red centre.
Inscriptions
Condition Single pentagonal fragment
Technique/Style painted, slipped; Mature Animal style;
Provenance Naucratis (made in Chios)
Period Archaic
Date 610BC-580BC;
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Front view of the interior of a fragment of a chalice.

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Front view of the exterior of a fragment of a chalice.

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Top view of the exterior of a fragment of a chalice.

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Front view of the interior of a fragment of a chalice.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, p.37,pl.23. no.6a-b; Lemos 1991 p.265, no.578, pl.73; Villing et al 2013-2015 (ORC) GD.0627 phase 2;
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 2.20;
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. W:2.20; T:0.20;
Location Timeline 2 top
Edited_by Matt; Karen; Kinsey; Adel;
Date_edited 26.06.2003; 20.04.2004; 16.01.2006; 2019;
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