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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/49.8.7

Accession_Number

49.8.7

Shape

Droop cup

Shape_description

Ridge between shallow bowl and outurned rim; two cylindrical handles curve upwards from just below ridge; hole in base where stem was

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/6

Decoration

Inside is black with a reserved ring in centre (around hole) and a reserved band on the junction of the offset rim with the body. Rim is black outside and there is a moulded, reserved ridge above handles on the junction of the rim with the body. Two handles, one on each side are black on top and reserved underneath. Below the shoudler ridge is a band of lotus buds with dots all joined by a chain below, black band, band of eight inverted birds (cockerels and hens (?) one smudged) with a dot rosette. The figure zone is framed by thinly painted brown lines, two on each end. Black band follows and three thin brown lines which encircle the black rays rising out from the root of the stem.

Inscriptions

Condition

Incomplete. Stem and foot missing leaving a hole in the centre of the cup. Deposits on rim, handles and inside. Glaze remains shiny on exterior surface, although flaking on large part of the rim and the handles. Thinly applied on the rim and fired red. Part of the black paint of the decoration fired red. Black paint smudge partly covering a bird on main band. Scratches on the top of the rim and handles.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

High Archaic

Date

550-525

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.95.0096.jpg	Bottom view of an (upside down) Attic black-figure 'Droop cup' (kylox), showing underside decoration.
2003.95.0097.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-figure 'Droop cup' (kylix), showing missing stem and foot.
2003.95.0098.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure 'Droop cup' (kylix), showing upcurving handles and reserved band between body and side.
2003.95.0099.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure 'Droop cup' (kylix), showing missing stem and foot and black-glazed interior.
2004.03.0001.jpg	Front view of an Attic droop cup, showing exterior decoration and the hole where the missing stem and foot would have been attached.
2008.10.0023.jpg	Profile drawing of an Attic Droop cup.