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🎨 Two Silver Skyphoi by Zopyros (Not Extant)

  • These cups, described by Pliny, cannot be dated with any certainty.
  • Alternative name
    Skyphos
    Source subtype
    Vessel
    Period
    Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE) Early Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE) Late Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE) Early Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE) Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE) Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE) Early Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)
    UNESCO status
    Now lost
    Inventory number
    Not Extant
    Reported to have depictions of
    πŸ‘€ Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) son of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra🌍 the Areiopagos (Athens) at Athens
    Described by
    πŸ“– Pliny, Natural History 33.156
    Commentary
    These cups, described by Pliny, cannot be dated with any certainty.
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