cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/26.2.64
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 | |
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; |