Ceramic kylix (cup) with, pedestal foot, rounded bowl and two handles. [Dan Hicks 08/05/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic kylix (cup) with, pedestal foot, rounded bowl and two handles. [Dan Hicks 08/05/2012]
Long description: Vessel on stand (kylix)Ceramic kylix (cup) with , pedestal foot, rounded bowl and two handles. Painted decoration in black on a cream ground. From Greece; Iron Age (Archaic Period) in date. [Dan Hicks 08/05/2012]
Geographical reference: Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: 600-501 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Archaic Greek
Date collected: By 1939
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Pigment, Material Pottery, Process Painted, Process Slipped
Dimensions: Height: max 94 mm, Width: max 275 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.1551 Other numbers: 2220
Research and responses: This object was examined by Dr Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa during the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. They described this vessel as a kylix, a vessel related to the storage of oils or cosmetics. They dated it to the sixth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]
Associated publications: Apparently listed as number 126 in the list of 'The Leafless Group' of 'Late Cups' on page 641 of Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters, by J. D. Beazley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956): '126. Oxford, Pitt-Rivers Museum, 2220. I, fawn. A. winged donkey, and satyrs; B, the like. Under each handle, a dolphin. Cup sub-A. Leafless.' [JC 25 6 2015] There is an entry for this object in the databases of the University of Oxford's Classical Art Research Centre at http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/default.asp. The 'vase number' is 331893. [JC 16 5 2017]

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