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Accession_Number

50.10.6

Shape

Skyphos

Shape_description

Deep bowl; two horizontal handles emerge from just below the rim; vertical walls taper down to small disk foot; concave underside with central convex circle.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Gnathian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/4

Decoration

Front: in handle zone, white eggs, with incised line above; then, between pairs of incised lines, wavy white line; below this, row of white dots. Red vine branch with dendant grape-clusters, leaves and tendrils. Incised line all round below. Back: pair of lines of white dots with double incised line in between tapering to single line. Incised line continued from below decoration on side A. Handles and interior black. Bottom portion of body and top of footring red with single black band near top. Side of footring black, underside reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Large piece rejoined from side A, but doesn't obscure decoration. Some pitting and chipping all over body. Small chip in rim by one of the handles.

Technique/Style

Provenance

Perhaps from Canosa

Period

Early Hellenistic

Date

300

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.98.0140.jpg	Front view of a Gnathian skyphos, showing main decoration of grape clusters, leaves and tendrils on a vine branch.
2003.98.0141.jpg	Back view of a Gnathian skyphos, showing the body and both of the handles.
2003.98.0142.jpg	Top view of a Gnathian skyphos, showing the interior and both of the handles.
2003.98.0143.jpg	Underside view of a Gnathian skyphos, showing the reserved base.
2003.98.0144.jpg	Oblique view, from the top, of a Gnathian skyphos, showing part of the design on the body and both of the handles.
2004.07.0006.jpg	Front view of a Gnathian skyphos, showing vine branch decoration.