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Provision of image

Inventory number

ΝΑ 1959 ΝΑΚ 17

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

750-730 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.061 m
Rim diameter: 0.095 m
Base diameter: 0.048 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 54

Description
Bibliography

Skyphos mended of many fragments found in 1959 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial XV-13 and was deposited as a burial offering along with seven more vessels.

Its base is flat, the body hemispherical, the rim slightly concave and the high handles horizontal. Between them a zone with birds, zig zag motif, vertical and horizontal lines and two stars are depicted. The rest of the pot’s surface is covered in thin and thick bands rendered with black colour.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 19, πίν. 10δ, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 44