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Skyphos (Etruscan bucchero ware)

ITALY, Etruria
Skyphos (Etruscan bucchero ware)
 630 BCE-600 BCE

Medium
fired clay

Measurements
8.4 × 12.8 × 8.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1893

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Etruria, Italy

Accession Number
80G-D1A

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Black two-handled deep cup; handles are near-horizontal below the rim with decorative lugs on either side. Decorated on the body, handle, lugs and even on the underside of the foot with geometric designs of incised dots. The vessel surface is badly abraded but would originally have been burnished.

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