Skyphos with Two Handles

late 6th-mid 4th century BCE (Archaic-Classical)

18.8 cm 9 cm 12.5 cm

Citation

The body of this cup is in the form of a typical skyphos (drinking cup), but the handles are somewhat unusual. The vertical handle would have facilitated drinking, as the handle on a modern mug does. The horizontal handle could have been used to dip liquid into the cup or to h...

कलाकृति/वस्तु

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16900
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object
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normalized
provenance
provenance
Hollis Hopkins, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1955, by purchase.
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CC0
language
language
en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2082

Terms

संस्कृति
Greek
विधा
skyphoi

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