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Skyphos with Two Handles
(Ancient Greece )
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 hang the cup on the wall when not in use. The black-glazed skyphos was unevenly fired, resulting in the mottled black and red color near the vertical handle.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Hollis Hopkins, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1955, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 1978 | In Search of Ancient Treasure: 40 Years of Collecting. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 9/16 × W with handles: 7 3/8 × Diam: 4 15/16 in. (9 × 18.8 × 12.5 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Sales & Accessions Purchase Fund, 1955
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2082