| Object Number |
MS4864 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Chalcidian |
| Provenience |
Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Date Made |
550-500 BCE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Description |
Eye kylix. Missing: both handles except attachments of one and sections of floor and lip. Reserved: underside of foot (with glazed circle & dot); side of foot; handle zone; and at center of floor a circular area ca. 0.035 m. in diam. with central glazed circle & dot. In handle zone, A&B, a pair of eyes, a nose, and two ears (?). On either side of each handle is a sizeable vertical palmette. A plastic ring around the stem is painted purple. |
| Height |
10.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
29 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Schaus, Gerald P., and Jack L. Benson. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The University Museum. University Museum 2; USA 29. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1995. See: pp. 33-34, 71, pl. 18, 1-5, fig. 4, 1 |
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| Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. Perugia: Electa/Editori Umbri Associati, 1991. See: p. 435 |
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| Rumpf, Andreas. "Philologische Wochenschrift." June 23, 1934. (1934). See: p. 680 |
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| Smith, H. R. "The Origin of Chalcidian Ware." University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology 1. (1932): 85-149. See: p. 14, pl. 23 |
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| Smith, H. R. "Newly Identified Fragments of Chalcidian Pottery in the Museum of the University of Pennysylvania." American Journal of Archaeology 32, no. 1. (1928): 63-64. See: p. 64 |
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| Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: p. 64, no. 51 |
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