Black glaze kylix painted with laurel leaves
Black glaze kylix painted with laurel leaves
Place of OriginApulia, Italy
Datelate 4th century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Rim Diam: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Max Diam (across handles): 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
MediumEarthenware, Xenon ware.
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family
Object number
2006.88
Not on View
DescriptionThe interior is painted with a wreath of laurel leaves and berries around a 9-leaf palmette in the tondo.
Published ReferencesAncient World Arts Ltd., Ancient World Arts Collection A998 (1998), no. A275. Cf. for the type: Margaret Ellen Mayo (ed.), The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, exhibition catalogue, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, 1982, no. 159.
First half of the first century
3rd-2nd century B.C.E.
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
Second half of the first century CE
1st century BCE - 3rd century CE
1st century BCE - 3rd century CE
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