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Accession_Number

51.4.10

Shape

Mastoid cup

Shape_description

Thin, out-turned rim; rounded body; rounded handles curving upwards; flat bottom; tiny base

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 5/6

Decoration

Offset rim and interior is glazed black but streaky allowing red to show through. The two handles are also black on the top and reserved underneath. Beneath each handle is an ivy leaf on a long curling stalk. The main design on both sides is flanked by eyes, which have red centres and white incised bands around them, superimposed onto black. Side A is a seated youth in profile to the rightin chiton and himation (?. Added white on stool and red on chimation and fillet on his head. Side B is a tree (?) with detail added in red-purple . No substantial foot, but a reserved, flat base.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Colours and design remains clear. Glaze remains shiny. Very good condition. Small chips on the lower part of the body and the rim. Glaze thinly applied on the eyes on side B and clay can be seen underneath.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

Late Archaic

Date

525-500

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Ure attributes it to the same hand as mastoid cups in Vienna (Vienna 296) and in New York (ex Coll. Gallatin): CVA Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections pl. 41.4

Image

2003.97.0595.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing a tree (?) between two eyes.
2003.97.0596.jpg	Front view of an Attic mastoid cup, showing a young boy seated between two eyes.
2003.97.0597.jpg	Top view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing the interior and the handles.
2003.97.0598.jpg	Bottom view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing the reserved base, some of the exterior, and handles.
2004.07.0010.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing a seated youth facing right.
2004.07.0011.jpg	Front view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing a youth seated to the right, between two eyes.
2004.07.0012.jpg	Side view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing an ivy leaf beneath a handle.
2004.07.0013.jpg	Back view of an Attic black-figure mastoid cup, showing a tree (?).
2010.98.0118.jpg	Oblique view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing a seated youth between eyes.
2010.98.0119.jpg	Front view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing a seated youth between eyes.
2010.98.0120.jpg	Front view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing a seated youth between eyes.
2010.98.0121.jpg	Side view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing eyes.
2010.98.0122.jpg	Back view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing a tree between eyes.
2010.98.0123.jpg	Side view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup, showing eyes.
2010.98.0124.jpg	Oblique bottom view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup.
2010.98.0125.jpg	Top view of an Attic, black-figure mastoid cup.