CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART:

KANTHAROI, SKYPHOI, AND KYATHOI




EC.53.06

Culture: Boeotian

Item: Kantharos

Description: Red-figure. Black with red figures. Nude soldiers with shields and domed helmets. For a similar vase type see R. Lulbes, Boeotian Red Figure Vase Painting(1940) 65 pl. 65.

Dimensions:
h: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
d: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

EC.53.07

Culture: Campanian

Item: Kantharos

Date: Later 4th century BCE

Description: Black-glazed. Two rope handles. No figures or decoration.

Dimensions:
h: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm)
d: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

EC.53.11

Culture: Attic

Item: Skyphos

Date: Later 4th century BCE

Description: Red-figure. On either side a nude athlete holding a circular object stands facing a draped male. Underneath the two handles are palmettes.

Dimensions:
h: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
d: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm)

EC.53.33

Culture: Etruscan

Item: Cup

Date: Late 7th - early 6th century BCE

Description: Brown clay "Ionian" style two-handled cup decorated with crudely incised fish-like design around the body and a spiral pattern around the neck. Reportedly found at Viterbo.

Dimensions:
h: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
d: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)

EC.53.39

Culture: Roman

Item: Skyphos

Type: Redware pottery

Date: 1st century CE

Description: Terra Sigillata two-handled cup decorated with an undulating wave of crude barbotine leaves with vertical branches between the undulations.

Dimensions:
h: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
d: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
l: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

EC.53.45

Culture: Campanian

Item: Kyathos

Date: Late 4th century BCE

Description: Black-glazed, no decoration. One ring handle.

Dimensions:
h: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
d: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm)
l: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm)

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