An Attic Black-glazed Skyphos, circa 475-425 B.C.

The reserved band above the foot painted in black with radiating lines, two narrow red bands below the handles, the spreading ring-foot rounded underneath, the reserved center with dot, two circles, and incised graffito delta iota.

Mathias Komor, New York
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 152, illus.)

on loan to The Brooklyn Museum, 1976-1979 (inv. no. L76.11.13)

Intact, very minor shallow chips on rim, three small chips on edge of base, stress crack across rim on side not shown, minor losses to black glaze on underside of base, a few minute nicks.
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Cf. F. Brommer, Schloss Fasanerie (Adolphseck), vol. 1 (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland, vol. 11), Munich, 1956, no. 195, pl. 87, no. 3.