Eye cup: GR.12.1937

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Lysippides Painter

Entities

Eye cup

Categories

Vessel

Description

Eye-cup, (I) Gorgoneion, (A) Dionysos and satyrs, (B) Herakles and Kyknos

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 0.12 m
Diameter: 0.375 m
Height: 0.155 m
Width: 0.447 m

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Place(s) associated

Athens

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

Archaic
-0530 BCE - -0510 BCE

Note

Black-figured

Materials used in production

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.12.1937
Primary reference Number: 69301
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 1 July 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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            University of Cambridge}}

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