Skyphos (drinking cup)

Artistattributed to Unidentified Hanau Group (Greek or Etruscan)

Period Early Etruscan (Etruscan, 9th century-4th century BCE)

Place of OriginApulia, Italy

Date425-400 BCE

Dimensionsto top of handles: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
to rim: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)
with handles: 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm)
4 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (11.5 × 8.5 cm)

Mediumearthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1912.1226

Not on View

DescriptionWheel-thrown, slip-decorated.

Label TextUnlike other Greek red-figure wares, the red color of the owl on this skyphos is dilute clay applied over the black background.Published ReferencesWashington, S., "Greek Vase Painting," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 5, no. 4, 1962, p. 93, repr.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 78, fig. 24.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A., fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 94, 1, p. 18.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Beazley, J.D., Etruscan Vase-Painting, Oxford, 1947, pp. 111-112 (for a discussion of the Hanau Group, to which this vase has been related).