Miniature skyphos

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1956 ΝΑΚ 120

Category

Vessel

Period

Classical Period

Date

End of the 5th-beginning of the 4th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.032 m
Rim diameter: 0.046 m
Base diameter: 0.026 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 3, No 105

Description
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Miniature black-glazed skyphos mended from many fragments and restored. It was found in 1956 on the Acropolis south slope in a pit that contained many more similar miniature pots and lamps, possibly used during the enactment of a foundation ritual.

The rounded body rests on a ring-foot and the horizontal handles are long and incurving. The glazing that covers the pot varies from brown to black due to the firing conditions in the ceramic kiln.

Παπαδοπούλου-Κανελλοπούλου, Χ., «Ανασκαφή "Νοτίως Ακροπόλεως". Μελανόμορφη κεραμεική», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 27 (1972), 1973, σελ. 226