Skyphos
MS4006
From: Italy | Rugge
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4006 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Gnathian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Rugge |
| Manufacture Location | South Italy |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Intact. Deep Corinthian type skyphos on a wide ring foot grooved at its upper and lower edges. Entirely covered with rather dull black glaze, except for a zone above the foot, reserved and reddened. Decoration added in white and purple: front, garland of ivy leaves and berries in the handle zone, bordered above and below by double lines; below, a horizontal band of purple over a double white line and a band of white pendants. Back, a conventional tendril - white line bordered above and below by dots - in the handle zone. Vertical white stripes on the foot. |
| Height | 11.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of S. F. Houston, 1906 |
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