Skyphos

MS5481

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS5481
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Attica
Date Made 500 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Amphitrite | Hermes | Iolaus | Athena | Nereid | Heracles
Description

Complete except for minor fragments. Unglazed: underside of foot (with central glazed circles and central dot); resting surface; inner sides of handles; and all of outer wall. On wall below there is a decorative band of alternating red and black tongues. On wall above is band of two rows of dots seperated by a line, horizontal. On A, left to right, Herakles, Nereus and 2 females. On B, left to right, Hermes and Athena and Iolaos. Shape as Richter and Milne fig. 170.

Height 19.4 cm
Outside Diameter 23 cm

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