Attic black-figure skyphos
Creators: name: Museum, Centre for Ancient Cultures
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
Heritage, archive and museum studies not elsewhere classified
Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Ceramics
Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified
Classical Greek and Roman history

description: <br> Attic terracotta skyphos (storage jar for wine) with a stemmed base, a deep bowl and twin, upturned loop handles, all upon a concave base. The rim and lip are thin and left red. The exterior walls are decorated with black-figure technique on red background: the deep drinking cup is flanked by two Sphynxes with wings recurved facing each other and with rough details incised. Close to the handles, is a stylized flower. Black glaze bands on the body and handles as well as a concentric circle on the base further adorn the piece. The foot is short with a thick disc mostly red except for the lower section painted in black glaze. Stylistic remarks: compare with object numbers 127.007 and 127.017, particularly the flower on 127.017. The style is remarkably similar to that of the Haimon Painter. Date: 500–450 B.C.E<br> Parallels: exceptionally similar example in style New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1972.118.144, similar in style 06.1021.65, see also 17.230.9, 41.162.125, 56.62.2, 91.1.457, 2021.40.37; Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art ΚΠ0018; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum 86.AE.150; Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums 1960.321. References: Walters, H B., Forsdyke, E J., Smith, C. H., <em>Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum</em>, London: BMP, 1893-1925; True, M., and Jiri F., <em>Greek Vases: Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection</em>, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983; Keck, J., <em>Studien zur Rezeption fremder Einfluesse in der chalkidischen Keramik. Ein Betrag zur Lokalisierungsfrage</em>, Archaeologische Studien 8, Frankfurt, 1988; Williams, D., <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum</em>, London: The British Museum 9, 1993; Catoni, M. L., <em>Bere vino puro. Immagini del simposio</em>. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2010; Matheson, S. B., <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Attic black-figure amphorae, loutrophoros-amphora, loutrophoros-hydria, hydria, olpai/oinochoai, lekythoi, alabastra, exaleiptra/kothones/plemochoai, pyxides, askos, plate, phiale, skyphoi, cups, and Six's technique lekythos, Boeotian black-figure lekane, kantharoi, skyphos, Attic red-figure bell krater. From the Martin Robertson Collection: Attic black-figure Cassel cup and fragments, red-figure pelike and fragments, white-ground lekythos fragment</em>, Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern, 2016; Malagardis, N., <em>Skyphoi Attiques à Figures Noires. Typologie et Recherches-Ateliers et Peintres</em>, Athens: Bibliothèque de la Sociététe Archèologique d'Athènes, 2017, p. 50; on the Haimon Painter Penelope T., “Attic White-Ground Pyxis and Phiale, ca. 450 B.C.”, <em>Boston Museum Bulletin</em>, vol. 67, no. 348, pp. 86 and 90; F. F. J. “Four Vases by the Haimon Painter”, <em>Record of the Art Museum</em>, Princeton University, vol. 11, no. 1, Princeton University Art Museum, 1952, pp. 5–9.Photo by Steve Morton