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

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

c. 540 BCE

attributed to Group of Rhodes 11941

(Greek, Attic)
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.)
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
    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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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.368