Object name: Cup with handles / Object class: Cups (drinking vessels) / Collector: Riccardo Mancinelli Scotti - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handles, accession number 8-1513, described as Gray cup w. 2 handles. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 7 cm; height to top of handles, 11 cm; diameter: 15.8 cm; diameter: between handles, 11.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 9). Gray impasto. Clay grayish with many impurities; dark gray polished surface, varying to brown. Low, slightly flaring lip; horizontal moulding joining lip to shoulder; low angular body contracting to flat bottom. Bands of "twisted wire" impressed above, and below moulding. High vertical handles rounded above, flattening out to triangular ribbons at point of contact with rim and body; triangular part of handles decorated with incised triangles filled with lead; other incisions filled with lead on upper and inner sides of handles. Halfway between handles, on shoulder, a small knob in an incised triangle. Between knobs and handles, traces of vertical plaques of lead symmetrically arranged (two between each knob and handle); some lead dioxide and a smooth, shiny surface, is all that remains of this metal decoration. Vase restored from many fragments; small portion of lip chipped off. Cf. Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 205, fig. 93 for shape.