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Drinking cup (skyphos)
Drinking cup (skyphos)

Drinking cup (skyphos)

First century, probably 1–50 A.D.
Place of ManufactureTarsus, Cilicia, Turkey
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Lead Glazed, mold-made
DimensionsHeight: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); diameter with handles: 14.8 cm (5 13/16 in.).
Credit LineBequest of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession number50.2295
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Charles Bain Hoyt Collection (according to his associate Burdon-Muller, the Hoyt "Greek & Roman glass and lead-glazed vases were all purchased from Kelekian and Kouchakji in New York"; bequest of Charles Bain Hoyt to MFA, May 11, 1950
Two-handled cup
30–1 B.C.
Pitcher (oinochoe)
25 B.C.–A.D. 10
Drinking cup (skyphos)
about 50 B.C.–A.D. 50
Drinking cup (skyphos)
about 50 B.C.–A.D. 50
Mold-made bowl
Quintius
110–80 B.C.
Early relief ware bowl
Caius Popilius
110–80 B.C.
Early relief ware bowl
Caius Popilius
110–80 B.C.