Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/56.8.1

Accession_Number

56.8.1

Shape

Kantharos

Shape_description

Rim is flat and the neck blends into shoulder. Body descends into a thin groove before a sloping foot.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/2

Decoration

Reserved inside. Paint on outside is black, lustreless and largely worn towards base of body. Two handles painted black on top but reserved underneath. In handle zone, within a panel framed with bands of dots is an ivy spray (on both sides). Lower band of dots carried round below handles. Bottom of object is black until reserved band just above foot. Flaring foot, black on top and reserved and conical underneath.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Very small chips on the rim. Extensive areas of colour loss mostly around the handle and body of the piece.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Period

High Classical

Date

425-400

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.93.0258.jpg	Front view of an Apulian kantharos, showing ivy ornament on the body.
2003.93.0261.jpg	Side view of a kantharos, showing ivy ornament decoration.
2003.97.0944.jpg	Front view of an Apulian kantharos, showing ivy ornament on the body.
2003.97.0945.jpg	Top view of an Apulian kantharos, showing the interior, mouth, and tops of two handles.
2003.97.0946.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian kantharos, showing the reserved base.
2004.03.0015.jpg	Front view of a kantharos, showing ivy ornament decoration.
2004.03.0016.jpg	Side view of a kantharos, showing ivy ornament decoration.