1892.67.62

Collection type

Object

Description

Black painted terracotta bowl (skyphos) with a footed base. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Long description

Black painted terracotta bowl (skyphos) with a footed base, slightly flared sides, wide mouth and two handles attached to the rim. The paint is worn in parts on the exterior. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Geographical reference

Greece

Europe > Southern Europe > Greece

Person

Field collector John Wickham Flower

PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Date made: 500-401 BC Archaeological period: Ancient Greek Archaeological period: Iron Age

Date collected

By 1892

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1892

Materials and processes

Material Terracotta Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Painted

Dimensions

Width: max 155 mm, Diameter: max 96 mm, Height: max 77 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1892.67.62

Research and responses

Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

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 skyphos vessel, a type of vessel associated with drinking. They dated it to the fifth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery