| Inventory Number: | H 420 | |
| Title: | Skyphos, Metallic Imitation | |
| Description: | Flat bottom; shallow convex body; offset rim, tilted outward. Outside: bands and zigzags. Inside : procession of birds and horses to right (five horses and one bird partially preserved); in field, double zigzag sections, concentric lozenges, vertical wavy lines; center of floor, an 8-armed swastika. Underneath, on resting surface, two glaze rings. Dull, black glaze, much peeled outside. For shape, based on metallic prototype cf. Young, Hesperia, Suppl. II, 1939, pp. 202-203. Also, B. Schweitzer, Die geometrische Kunst Griechenlands, Koln, 1969, p. 324, note 67. See Workshop of Athens 894: cf. Coldstream, G.G.P., pp. 58-64. | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.051; Diam. (rim) 0.128 | |
| Chronology: | LG IIB | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 270, p. 64, pl. 23. |
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