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A skyphos (two-handled deep wine cup) of Attic (Greek) type
4th century BC
Attica
Black on red clay
Height: 14cm
Diameter (including handles): 22.5cm
Diameter (excluding handles): 15cm
Diameter (including handles): 22.5cm
Diameter (excluding handles): 15cm
Museum number: L15
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 514
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Side A: Naked and draped youth standing facing.
Side B: Two draped youths standing facing.
Ovolo border at rim; palmettes beneath handles; fillet below.
Similar examples are dated at least to the second quarter of the fourth century BC and generally towards the middle of the century; compare D.M. Robinson, Olynthus, vol. V, pl.106, no.173, and also nos. 176, 181.
Side B: Two draped youths standing facing.
Ovolo border at rim; palmettes beneath handles; fillet below.
Similar examples are dated at least to the second quarter of the fourth century BC and generally towards the middle of the century; compare D.M. Robinson, Olynthus, vol. V, pl.106, no.173, and also nos. 176, 181.
Literature
Description, French edition, 1835, p.1.
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