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Accession_Number

29.11.6

Shape

Skyphos

Shape_description

Two u-shaped horizontal handles placed slightly above the lip, slightly angled upwards. Deep body descending to a groove above the ring base.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Boeotian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/4

Decoration

The vessel is divided in three horizontal zones by lines of unequal width. There are also very thin, vertical lines at the sides of and beneath the handles. A (above): A youth (servant?), making a gesture as if offering something (perhaps a branch, which extends from the servant's wrist) to a bearded, draped man (possibly Dionysos), at centre. He holds a large kantharos and leans against a rock. Behind him is another youth, who is perhaps supporting the rock. On either side of the scene there are palmettes that seem to have sprung from the handles. B (above): Similar to side A, except that the man reclines on a couch, and the vessel is offered to him by a (servant?) woman in front of him. The youth behind him looks to the left. The scene is framed vertically on both sides by a series of dots as well as the same palmettes as on side A. A-B (below): A band of palmettes, every second one inverted; two lines; a band of of tongues; reserved band. Base black, with black concentric circles on the underside. Interior: reserved band within lip. At centre, tondo decorated with the winged horse, Pegasus, advancing to the right.

Inscriptions

Condition

Reconstructed by many fragments, there are a few gouges and many small bits of colour have fallen off, especially from the interior.

Technique/Style

Black figure; added white and red; incised detail on figures

Provenance

Period

Late Archaic

Date

500-475

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.16.0001.jpg	Detail of Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing Pegasos in the tondo.
2003.16.0002.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly below, of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing some of the base and the side (two attendants and a reclining bearded man, perhaps Dionysos, drinking from a kantharos).
2003.16.0004.jpg	Detail from the exterior of Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing two attendants and a reclining bearded man, perhaps Dionysos, drinking from a kantharos.
2003.95.0113.jpg	Top view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing the interior, with a tondo decoration of Pegasos advancing to the right.
2003.95.0114.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, with exterior decoration showing a reclining man flanked by two figures.
2003.95.0115.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing reclining man flanked by two figures.
2003.95.0116.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing handle.
2003.95.0117.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos (side A), showing a reclining figure attended by servants(?).
2003.95.0118.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing handle.
2004.05.0019.jpg	Back view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos (side B), showing two attendants and a reclining bearded man, perhaps Dionysos, drinking from a kylix or kantharos.
2004.05.0020.jpg	Front view of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing some of the base and the side (two attendants and a reclining bearded man, perhaps Dionysos, drinking from a large kylix or kantharos).
2004.05.0021.jpg	Detail of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos showing Pegasos in profile advancing to the right, in the tondo (interior).
2004.05.0022.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly below, of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos, showing some of the base and the front (side A): two attendants and a reclining bearded man, perhaps Dionysos, drinking from a kylix or kantharos.
2004.05.0023.jpg	Detail of a Boeotian black-figure skyphos showing Pegasos in profile advancing to the right, in the tondo (interior).
2004.05.0024.jpg	Detail from the exterior of Boeotian black-figure skyphos (side B), showing the top half of attendant, holding a drinking cup out to Dionysos (?).