1884.37.75

Collection type

Object

Description

One-handled skyphos vessel, a pottery cup of black-painted red ware with transverse handle, pedestal foot and a rounded bowl. [SM (Verve) 21/1/2016]

Geographical reference

Greece

Europe > Southern Europe > Greece

Unknown

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: 500-301 BC Archaeological period: Ancient Greek Archaeological period: Iron Age

Date collected

?By 1881

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Thrown, Process Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 48 mm, Width: max 117 mm, Diameter: max 88 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.37.75 PR no.: ?499/ 12191

Research and responses

This object was examined by Drs Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa as part of the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. They described it as a one-handled skyphos vessel, a type of vessel associated with drinking. They dated it to the fifth/fourth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]

Associated publications

Referred to on page 327 of 'The Aegean and Cyprus', by Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 216-39. Galanakis and Hicks writes: ‘There is a similarly wide range of c. 30 ceramic artefacts, representing at least 14 different forms, from the Classical Greek period (c. 500–350 BCE): ... 6 skyphoi cups (1884.37.75, 1884.41.24, 1884.41.49–50, 1884.64.6, 1892.67.62) ...’ [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Food and Drink, Cup, Food Accessory