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Accession_Number

50.4.12

Shape

Stemless cup

Shape_description

Castulo cup': large stemless cup. Slightly outturned rim with concave lip, inset on interior and exterior, below which are attached two horizontal round handles, oblong in shape, incurved and rising to the height of the rim. Shallow bowl divided from a spreading, lipped torus ring foot by a broad groove.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Reddish-yellow clay

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/6

Decoration

Silvery black gloss except underside, which is reserved, reddened, and decorated with a central black dot and two concentric black bands. The external is wider and painted without precision. Red paint of the resting surface slightly flaked off at small parts.

Inscriptions

Condition

Gloss somewhat worn on one side of rim and handles; resting surface, rim, handles chipped. Glaze is not lustrous, On the exterior towards the foot fired to brownish

Technique/Style

Black glaze

Provenance

Possibly from Pompeii

Period

Early Classical

Date

470-450

Dating_details

Artist

The Read-Ox Potter

Attribution

D.W. Gill: cf. London, BM 1978.121.2 and 29; Oxford 1968.1530.

Image

2001.99.0129.jpg	Oblique view from above of an Attic black-glaxed Castulo cup showing underside.
2001.99.0130.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-gloss kylix (upside down) showing base and handles.
2001.99.0131.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-gloss kylix, showing the interior.
2003.97.0529.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-gloss kylix, showing the interior.
2003.97.0530.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Attic black-gloss kylix, showing the interior.
2003.97.0531.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-gloss kylix, showing the interior and both the handles.
2003.97.0532.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-gloss kylix, showing the underside.
2008.10.0026.jpg	Profile drawing of an Attic black-glazed Castulo cup.