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Late Corinthian Skyphos found at Dionysos Temple in Athens

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Object number
AR3027C
Object: Skyphos
Beaker with two handles

Material: Yellowish clay with black slip and red painting

Date: Second half 6th century B.C.
Late Corinthian II

Description:    High beaker with small conical foot and two small horizontal handles below the lip. Decorated with broad rand band between black bands of various thickness and band of large dots below the lip.

Size: Height 56 mm, diameter 119 mm with and 73 mm without handles

Condition: Restored from several fragments. Overall very well impression, original decoration mainly preserved. Previously stored in museum exhibition box made of acrylic glass and fixed with glue on the bottom (not visible when the beaker is standing, remains of the glue can be easily removed if desired).

References: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Frankfurt, Universität und Liebighaus 4, Pl. 42.1
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris, Musee du Louvre 8, Pl. 27.12

Provenance: Acquired by us in 2020 on the British art market. Previously with Sun Jester, a British organization dedicated to adult education that emerged from the Young Archaeologists Club. Acquired by the organization in 2003 from the British city of Wakefield, administered by the Wakefield Council. The city council sold objects from the old British educational lending collection Wakefield Education Resource Service (ERS) that shut down its program in the middle of the 1990s. It came into the collection between 1923 and 1988. The object was inventorized as set 3109 and later re-inventorized as set 2 of catalogue reference E779.
The ERS records preserved the information that the skyphos was found together with two other objects at the Temple of Dionysos in Athens (group # 3109).

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