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MM 1956:275 :: kantharos

Object description: Flaring rim; body with slightly concave profile, angular ridge above base; high, vertical band handles with raised sides from rim to lower body; high ring base. Reddish yellow clay; black glaze, largely misfired to reddish brown.

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Inventory number: MM 1956:275
Serie nummer: 377377
Object: kantharoskantharos
Material: EarthenwareEarthenware; ClayClay; PotteryPottery
Material, Swedish: KeramikKeramik
Acquisition: Gift from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.Gift%20from%20the%20Knut%20and%20Alice%20Wallenberg%20Foundation.
Description: Flaring rim; body with slightly concave profile, angular ridge above base; high, vertical band handles with raised sides from rim to lower body; high ring base. Reddish yellow clay; black glaze, largely misfired to reddish brown.
Time - Manufacturing, earliest: 460-430 BC
Period: ClassicalClassical
Comments: Diagonal strokes on one side of interior and exterior are most likely unintentional.
Keyword: ceramicsceramics
Cf Publications: P. N. Ure, Black glaze pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia, Oxford 1913, 12, pl.8:18.235. P. N. Ure, Sixth and fifth century pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia, Oxford 1927, 36-37, pl.10:139.38. B. A. Sparkes & L. Talcott, Black and plain pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries B.C (Excavations of the Athenian Agora 12), Princeton 1970, 114-115, fig.7:628.
Publications: CVA Stockholm 2, pl.31:6, fig.159.
PhotoNegNo: MM neg 7524.MM%20neg%207524.
Pottery Ware: Black-glazedBlack-glazed
Height / Höjd: 8,210,7includings cm
Diameter: 11,0 cm11%2C0%20cm; 7,9 cm7%2C9%20cm
Dimensions: H 8.2; 10.7 (including handles). Ø 11.0. Ø of base 7.9.
Condition: Intact. Some glaze gone.Intact.%20Some%20glaze%20gone.
Conservation - Executed: Desalted, AT, June 1997-February 1998.Desalted%2C%20AT%2C%20June%201997-February%201998.
Original register: GreekRomanGreekRoman

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