Athenian kantharos from old German private collection
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Object number
AR3201
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Kanthers
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| Material: |
Red clay with glossy black slip
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| Date: |
4th century B.C. Athenian |
| Description: |
Bowl-shaped body, curving in sharply at shoulder. Broad cylindrical neck with overhanging rim. Narrow foot, with slight stem. Two angular vertical handles attached below the shoulder connecting to rim level with flat tapering spurs projecting horizontally from rim.
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| Size: |
Width 177 mm with and 100mm without handles, height 105 mm.
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| Condition: |
Professionally restored from fragments, small missing parts remodeled. Overall excellent condition with very well preserved glossy black slip.
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| References: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Zürich, Öffentliche Sammlungen, Beilage 9.2, PL. 28.6 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1, 39-40, PL. 48.7 For further literature, see e.g.,: Sparkes B.A, Talcott L. The Athenian Agora XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C. 2 vol., Princeton, N.J., 1970, 122. |
| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2021 from the German private collection Dr. Dietrich who acquired the object in 1966 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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| Authenticity: |
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