Black Glaze Skyphos with disparate handles

Black Glaze Skyphos with disparate handles

circa 480-450 BCE

Unknown (Greek)

Attic Greek

Style/Period: Attic

Repository: Museum of Classical Antiquities, University of Ottawa / Musée d'antiquités gréco-romaines, Université d'Ottawa

containers|culinary equipment

Materials/Techniques: black-glaze ware

Measurements: 7.5 cm high, 14.1 cm wide (including handles), 9 cm rim diameter, 5 cm base diameter

Attic Type B skyphos with thin walls and ring foot; two handles one horizontal, one vertical both attached below rim. Light, thin black slip typical of this class. Resting surface of foot and base are reserved except for a ring painted around the interior of the base. Skyphoi with disparate handles are rarer than those with two horizontal handles. They were tailored for use in the Greek symposium, the banquet attended by Greek male citizens. The vertical handle was for drinking or dipping the cup into drink, while the horizontal handle allowed it to be hung up on a hook when not in use, between symposia.

Repository Accession Number: 985.2.1

Record: UO-MCA-985-2-1

Cataloguer: Holly Brant, University of Ottawa; Curator, Antonia Holden

Photographer: Mélissa Mourez, University of Ottawa.

Image Date: 2018-07-19

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