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Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (Attic type) - 1965.10

Acquisition number: 1965.10

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Attic Black-Glaze Skyphoi. 1966.04, 1966.01, 1965.10, 1966.03.

Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (Attic type). Intact. The vase is somewhat misfired with the result that the clay is rather grey and the glaze dull. The inside and outside of the vase are painted solid. There is a line of black on the inner face of the foot but the resting surface and the underside of the floor are reserved and the latter decorated with two small circles in the centre.

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Title: Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (Attic type) - 1965.10

Acquisition number: 1965.10

Author or editor: J.R. Green

Culture or period: Greek Classical.

Date: c. 375 BC.

Material: Clay - Terracotta

Object type: Skyphos

Dimensions: 113mm (w) × 97mm (h)

Origin region or location: Greece

Origin city: Athens.

Display case or on loan: 3

Keywords: Greek, Classical, Attic, Black Glaze

Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 17 May 1965, no. 166; J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 45.

1965.10

Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (Attic type)

Purchased. Ht 9.7cm; diam. 11.3cm.

Intact. The vase is somewhat misfired with the result that the clay is rather grey and the glaze dull. The inside and outside of the vase are painted solid. There is a line of black on the inner face of the foot but the resting surface and the underside of the floor are reserved and the latter decorated with two small circles in the centre.

Perhaps about 375 BC: B.A. Sparkes and L. Talcott, The Athenian Agora xii: Black and Plain Pottery (Princeton 1970) pl.16, 349 and 350 which are dated to the first and second quarters of the fourth century respectively. For another skyphos of Attic type, see 1966.01 (in this catalogue), which is rather earlier: compare the more regular curve of the wall with the s-curve of this example, a fourth-century feature.

Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 17 May 1965, no. 166; J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 45.