cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/61.6.3
Accession_Number | 61.6.3 |
Shape | Kylix |
Shape_description | Everted lip with rounded rim, curving out to a short shoulder, then tapering to a conical, deep bowl, with short stem that broadens to a flat, disk foot, with tapering, slightly rounded exterior, gougedresting surface, slightly concave interior, and slightly convex underside. From either side, just below the rim, a u-shaped handle, round in section, rises up to just above the top of the rim. |
Material | Terracotta |
Fabric | Boeotian |
Fabric_description | |
Munsell_color | 7.5YR 7/4 |
Decoration | Glazed black on the interior, except at the bottom of the bowl. Exterior glazed black (dipped) on the rim, handles, except near attachment (but a small line emerges to the front of the bowl, from either handle). The floral frieze consists of: palmette, upright, flanked by curling tendrils from which hang smaller palmettes (side A), a simple enclosed palmette (under missing handle); two upright palmettes with curling tendrils, although the palmette on the right has two curling tendrils at the left and none at the right (side B); simple palmette under handle. Beneath the floral frieze is a thin black band above a band of black dots. Black glaze also on the lower part of the body, stem, and top of foot, and interior surface of the foot (with extra paint spilling over onto the resting surface and the underside). |
Inscriptions | |
Condition | One handle is missing, and there is a piece broken off the foot. Small scratches all over the surface, both inside and out, as well as a whitish deposit all over. |
Technique/Style | Floral ware |
Provenance | |
Period | Late Classical / Early Hellenistic |
Date | 4 c. (?) |
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Artist | |
Attribution | |
Image | |
Comparanda | |
Bibliography | Antike Kunst 9.1973, pp.112-113 and pl.40 (Festochift Hansjoerg Bloesch) |
Archive_Ref | |
Beazley_DB | |
Height | 7.3 |
Diameters | Rim 20.5; stem 5.9; foot 8.4 |
Handle_height | 3.6 |
Other_dims. | Pres. W. across handles 24.4; H. foot 2.0 |
Location | History - Excavation shed (top shelf) |
Edited_by | Georgina; Teifi; Amy |
Date_edited | 02.08.02; 07.09.2006; 11.08.2011 |