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A Campanian (Greek) skyphos (two-handled deep wine cup)
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A Campanian (Greek) skyphos (two-handled deep wine cup)
Mid 4th century BC to late 4th century BC
Campania
Made in a Greek colony in southern Italy.
Made in a Greek colony in southern Italy.
Black glaze on red clay
Height: 12cm
Diameter: 20cm, maximum
Diameter (excluding handles): 12cm
Diameter: 20cm, maximum
Diameter (excluding handles): 12cm
Museum number: L38
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 544
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
A youth fillet in hair and clad in long himation, standing left.
Side B
(Ruined) A youth, in long himation, standing left.
Ovolo and fillet border at rim; palmettes and large sprays beneath handles; fillet groundline below.
This piece belongs to the one-dot group, the dot occurring in the palmette flower. A dotty border also occurs in the himation. Compare generally with Capua 42.4 and 43.2. The usual/normal scene is youth with spear and youth. A three-dot group also occurs.
A youth fillet in hair and clad in long himation, standing left.
Side B
(Ruined) A youth, in long himation, standing left.
Ovolo and fillet border at rim; palmettes and large sprays beneath handles; fillet groundline below.
This piece belongs to the one-dot group, the dot occurring in the palmette flower. A dotty border also occurs in the himation. Compare generally with Capua 42.4 and 43.2. The usual/normal scene is youth with spear and youth. A three-dot group also occurs.
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