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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/61.6.4

Accession_Number

61.6.4

Shape

Skyphos

Shape_description

Deep skyphos with thickened round rim, groove just below, straight walls of unusually deep body that narrows, with a sharp cuve at the bottom, to a short concave stem, and a thick disk foot, rounded on the exterior and angled on the interior, with a flat resting surface and a slightly concave underside. Two u-shaped handles, round in cross section, rise from the upper part of the body to the height of the rim.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Euboean

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Decoration fired medium-dark reddish-brown rather than black, except at the centre of the front. Interior glazed, except for a narrow reserved band at the top. Exterior glazed on rim, exterior of handles, lower part of body, exterior and interior of foot, and thick band around a bull's eye on underside (namely a band around a dot. Body decorated on either side with a tall 5-petalled lotus between two 15-18-petalled palmettes. A single ivy leaf, upright, floats beneath each handle. Beneath the palmettes and ivy leaves are two black bands.

Inscriptions

Condition

Complete and intact. Pitted slightly at the back of the body. Surface decoration flaked off on lower part of body and foot at the back White deposits on left handle; white stain over front of body large white (salt?) deposit. One of the handles also has this white deposit and the upper part of the footring.

Technique/Style

Black figure; floral ware

Provenance

Period

Late Classical / Early Hellenistic

Date

4 c.

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Ure 1970 explains that this skyphos provides a link between the Group of the Athens Hydria (F) and the Group of the Reading Lekanis (G).

Image

2006.78.0085.jpg	Front view of an Euboean skyphos, showing tall 5-petaled lotus between two palmettes.
2006.78.0086.jpg	Front view of an Euboean skyphos, showing tall 5-petaled lotus between two palmettes.
2006.78.0087.jpg	Top view of a Euboean skyphos, showing interior.
2006.78.0088.jpg	Top view of a Euboean skyphos, showing the base.
2008.98.0450.jpg	Top view of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos, showing the interior of the bowl and the tops of the two horizontal handles.
2008.98.0451.jpg	Bottom view of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos, showing the banded underside.
2008.98.0452.jpg	Oblique view from above of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos.
2008.98.0453.jpg	Profile view of the front of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos.
2008.98.0454.jpg	Profile view of the side of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos.
2008.98.0455.jpg	Profile view of the back of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos.
2008.98.0456.jpg	Profile view of the side of a Euboean floral-ware skyphos.
2010.98.0213.jpg	Top view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos.
2010.98.0214.jpg	Oblique bottom view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, depicting plants and patterns.
2010.98.0215.jpg	Oblique top view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, depicting plants and patterns.
2010.98.0216.jpg	Front view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, decorated with plants and patterns.
2010.98.0217.jpg	Side view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, depicting plants and patterns.
2010.98.0218.jpg	Front view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, depicting plants and patterns.
2010.98.0219.jpg	Side view of a Euboean, black-figure skyphos, depicting plants and patterns.