Acquisition number: 1966.02
Both handles have been broken away and rejoined. Pinkish buff clay. Ring foot. Red-brown paint almost entirely worn away. Both inside and outside were originally painted but for a reserved band on the lower wall. The underside was also painted.
Title: Sicilian Black-Glaze Skyphos - 1966.02
Acquisition number: 1966.02
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Second half 5th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Dimensions: 92mm (w) × 65mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Display case or on loan: 10
Keywords: Sicilian, Black Glaze, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 73.
1966.02
Sicilian Black-Glaze Skyphos
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 6.5cm; diam. 9.2cm.
Both handles have been broken away and rejoined. Pinkish buff clay. Ring foot. Red-brown paint almost entirely worn away. Both inside and outside were originally painted but for a reserved band on the lower wall. The underside was also painted.
Probably second half of the fifth century BC.
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) 73.