Acquisition number: 1966.04
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Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (type B). Intact but for the vertical handle which has been broken and rejoined. Good lustrous black glaze, slightly misfired in places on the upper wall and the horizontal handle. The resting surface is reserved but the inner face of the foot is black. The underside of the floor is reserved, reddened, and decorated with a small central circle and dot.
Title: Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (type B) - 1966.04
Acquisition number: 1966.04
Culture or period: Greek Classical.
Date: c. 480-450 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Skyphos
Dimensions: 93mm (w) × 73mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Gela.
Display case or on loan: 3
Keywords: Greek, Classical, Attic, Black Glaze, Corinthian, Sicily, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 46.
1966.04
Attic Black-Glaze Skyphos (type B)
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 7.3cm; diam. 9.3cm.
Intact but for the vertical handle which has been broken and rejoined. Good lustrous black glaze, slightly misfired in places on the upper wall and the horizontal handle. The resting surface is reserved but the inner face of the foot is black. The underside of the floor is reserved, reddened, and decorated with a small central circle and dot.
For this type of skyphos with one vertical and one horizontal handle, compare the example decorated with owls, 1963.01 in this catalogue. A black-glaze example from the Athenian Agora not far from ours in shape is B.A. Sparkes and L. Talcott, The Athenian Agora xii: Black and Plain Pottery (Princeton 1970) pl. 17, 362, dated 480-450 BC; see also the discussion pp. 86-87. There is also a useful survey and discussion of the shape in D.W.J. Gill and R.A. Tomlinson, “Two Type B Skyphoi in Birmingham”, Annual of the British School at Athens 80, 1985, 115-118. Black versions such as this are not common.
See 1966.01-1966.42 in this catalogue for all material from the Woite Collection in the ANU collection.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 46.