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
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Second half 5th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 499 to 400
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Technique or style: Black-Glaze.
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.
1966.02
Sicilian black-glaze skyphos
c. 2nd half 5th century BC
From the Woite Collection.
Both handles have been broken away and rejoined.