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LOT 0501

Greek Archaic Terracotta Skyphos with Concentric Circles

7TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.

6 1/8 in. (243 grams, 15.5 cm wide).

Conical in form with rounded shoulder, everted rim and two round-section handles; painted with concentric bands around the interior and exterior.

Provenance

Acquired in Europe before 1992.
European collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. Metropolitan Museum for similar example, accession no.66.111.

Footnotes

The skyphos was already well known in Greece since the age of the Achaeans. In Homer, Eumaeus, the swineherd, prepares for his guest Ulysses a cyssibium filled with wine which the hero drinks during the meal and, when he is full, Eumaeus makes him drink from the cup in which he himself was using, a skyphos. Ulysses also offers Polyphemus a drink in a skyphos.

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LOT 0501

Greek Archaic Terracotta Skyphos with Concentric Circles

Sold for (Inc. bp): £468

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