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Cup or dipper (kyathos)
Greek
Late Geometric Period
725–700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Robinson
Accession Number92.2599
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 259.
DescriptionSmall kyathos with high strap handle. Below lip line of running (or tangential) ovals; two lines; frieze of false spirals (running concentric circles); three lines; base is solid slip. Notes say "Boeotian? about 700? J. Hayes '68."
Beazley says no Mycenaean influence as Fairbanks thought (J.H.S. 1929, Pt. II, p. 287).
Beazley says no Mycenaean influence as Fairbanks thought (J.H.S. 1929, Pt. II, p. 287).
ProvenanceBy 1882: Edward Robinson Collection (according to his Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases, no. 8: purchased in Athens in 1882; found in Attica); gift of Edward Robinson to MFA, February 10, 1892