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A black ceramic vessel features a wide bowl narrowing to a pedestal foot with two handles curving upward. An orange band around the center depicts a central winged siren with a human head and bird body facing right. Two antlered stags on either side bend their heads toward the center, flanked by felines with long tails. Thin orange stripes repeat around the black lower body and foot.

Black-Figure Band Skyphos (Drinking Cup): Sirens, Stags, and Panthers

c. 540 BCE

attributed to Group of Rhodes 11941

(Greek, Attic)
ceramic
Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 13.1 x 29.9 cm (5 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)
Bequest of Maud Eells Corning 1992.368
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

Three of four stags on this cup each appear to have just one ear.

Description

A siren, a mythological woman-headed bird, stands at the center of the figural band on either side of this cup, her wings spread and head turned to the left. Flanking her are a pair of grazing stags, with a panther on either side facing inward. Inside, the cup is sparsely decorated, its reserved tondo holding a dot within concentric circles.
  • ?-1975
    Warren H. Corning (1902-1975), by inheritance to Maud Eells Corning
    1975-1992
    Maud Eells Corning (1909-1991), bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1992-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 340424 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. p. 89, No. 20, 113
    “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 158 www.jstor.org
    Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. p. 32, pl. 69.1-2
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