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Provision of image

Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΚ 462

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Protogeometric Period

Date

960-900 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.124 m
Rim diameter: 0.135 m
Base diameter: 0.056 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 48

Description
Bibliography

Skyphos mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1957 at a cemetery located on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial XXVIII-M and was deposited as a burial offering along with thirteen more vessels, two iron pins and clay beads, which possibly come from one necklace.

Its foot is conical, the hemispherical body deep, the rim slightly outturned and the handles horizontal. The body is decorated with concentric circles, hatched motif as well as horizontal and vertical lines. Its lowest part is covered with black paint. Various parts of the pot’s surface are burnt due to the fire lit during the burial.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 30-31, πίν. 19δ, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 88
Lemos, Ι., The protogeometric Aegean: the archaeology of the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC, Oxford, 2002, σελ. 39
Papadopoulos, J.K., «The Charitonidis Class: a group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi», Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Istitute at Athens and Rome 8, 2015, σελ. 11-12
Papadopoulos, J., Smithson, E., The early iron age. The cemeteries, The Athenian Agora XXXVI, 2017, σελ. 971 υποσημ. 571