| Accession_Number | REDMG:1951.113.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Shape | Skyphos | ||||||||||||||||
| Shape_description | Rounded rim, slightly incurving, below which are attached two nearly triangular horizontal strap handles and ring base, canted slightly up; rounded body broadens slightly and then narrows to an angled ring foot, curved on the resting surface, and offset from the slightly convex underside. Body broader than standard Apulian shape, so that it can't fit easily into the sequence of Gnathian skyphoi. | ||||||||||||||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||||||||||||||
| Fabric | Apulian: Perhaps Messapian | ||||||||||||||||
| Fabric_description | Possibly local Apulian (not Tarantine): see J.R. Green 1971 (presence or absence or mica hard to determine at a glance). | ||||||||||||||||
| Munsell_color | 7.5YR 5/4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Decoration | Black glazed except for reserved areas: lower part of body, reserved (interrupted by a black line); upper part of foot, and underside (resting surface glazed black except for a reserved band). Back decorated with a (white) wavy ivy garland beneath handle; front decorated with two incised lines, egg-and-dot frieze on which eggs are surrounded by incised lines; another pair of incised lines; waves to right, garland from which hang alternating fronds and bunches of grapes, with longer sprays at sides; on a pair of dotted groundlines stands a bird (wren?), profile to left, between two flowers. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Condition | Comprised of 10 or more rejoined pieces, missing slight chips from joins; slight yellowish-white deposit on interior of one hande; lower body slightly eroded on right side; underside slightly scratched. | ||||||||||||||||
| Technique/Style | Gnathian; black-glaze; overpainted | ||||||||||||||||
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| Period | Early Hellenistic | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 320 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dating_details | J.R. Green suggests this date on the basis of pictures (14.11.2003). | ||||||||||||||||
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| Bibliography | T.B.L. Webster, BICS 15 (1968) 17, no. 23, and pl. 2b. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 9.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Diameters | Rim 10.8, base 5.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Handle_height | 0.9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Other_dims. | W. incl. handles 17.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Symposium | ||||||||||||||||
| Edited_by | Georgia; Amy; Teifi | ||||||||||||||||
| Date_edited | 04.06.2003; 21.10.2004; 28.07.2006 |
